NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 15, 2025--
Row 7 Seed Company, an organic food company known for its commitment to flavor and innovation in the seed-to-table movement, is excited to announce the launch of Sugarcone cabbage at 325 Whole Foods Market locations across California, the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Texas, including Houston, Austin, and Dallas. This new variety will be available from September through mid-November.
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For over a decade, Row 7 founder Chef Dan Barber and other chefs across the country have been working with pointed-head cabbages in restaurant kitchens, but this is the first time these exceptional vegetables are available to home cooks on a larger scale.
"We've spent decades prioritizing shipping and storage over flavor when it comes to cabbage," said Barber. "Sugarcone cabbage brings back what we lost—real cabbage flavor that's naturally sweet, tender, and designed for taste, not transport."
A Cabbage Revolution in Your Kitchen
What makes Sugarcone cabbage special? Its naturally sweet, mild flavor lacks the sulfury bite or bitterness found in traditional cabbage. The thin, delicate leaves offer a clean, juicy crunch that is more lettuce-like than fibrous, making it incredibly versatile—perfect raw in slaws and salads, roasted or grilled where it caramelizes beautifully, quickly sautéed and braised thanks to its tender consistency, or used for exceptional sauerkraut, kimchi, and stuffing.
The distinctive conical heads are just the right size for everyday cooking. These small to medium heads (about 1–2 pounds) reduce waste and leftovers while delivering incredible flavor and texture.
“The pointed head transforms a simple roast or grill into a centerpiece," explains Liz Mahler, Row 7’s COO. "But more importantly, it cooks faster and delivers the cabbage experience you never knew you were missing.”
Flavor-Forward Breeding
For decades, plant breeders focused on durability, shelf life, and transportability – traits that favored dense, round cabbages built for mechanized harvesting and shipping.
Sugarcone cabbage marks a shift toward flavor-focused breeding. While it is more delicate than storage varieties, this is exactly what makes it unique. The pointed varieties have been valued by chefs, market growers, and gardeners for their excellent taste and early season availability, but were rarely available to home cooks until now.
Row 7 is partnering with a network for organic farmers who share their passion and commitment for exceptional flavor, starting with the soil. Together, they’ve brought this new variety to market.
Sugarcone Cabbage joins Row 7's fall portfolio alongside organic Upstate Abundance potatoes, Sweet Garleek, Honeypatch squash and Koginut squash. Together, these varieties bring home cooks a collection of effortlessly delicious vegetables designed to elevate everyday meals and seasonal classics alike.
For more information and to find Sugarcone cabbage near you, visit row7seeds.com.
About Row 7 Seed Company
Row 7 is a seed-to-table company revolutionizing how we eat — and how we grow — through better-tasting vegetables. Founded by Chef Dan Barber, Row 7 works with chefs, farmers and plant breeders to co-select new varieties in the field and kitchen. Row 7 launched a line of branded organic vegetables for sale in grocery stores in the Northeast in 2022 and expanded nationwide in 2025. For more information, or to grow your own Row 7 seeds, visit row7seeds.com
What makes Row 7's Sugarcone cabbage special? Its naturally sweet, mild flavor lacks the sulfury bite or bitterness found in traditional cabbage. The thin, delicate leaves offer a clean, juicy crunch that is more lettuce-like than fibrous, making it incredibly versatile—perfect raw in slaws and salads, roasted or grilled where it caramelizes beautifully, quickly sautéed and braised thanks to its tender consistency, or used for exceptional sauerkraut, kimchi, and stuffing.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The lightning that streaked over Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night only briefly slowed the Oranje Fanwalk, as Dutch supporters marched en masse to watch the Netherlands play Tunisia in the World Cup, the top spot in Group F hanging in the balance.
Nothing else seems to be slowing down the Dutch these days.
Certainly not a Tunisian team in chaos.
Brian Brobbey scored his third goal of the tournament, and the Netherlands got two more goals that deflected off Tunisian players and into their own net, sending the Dutch to a 3-1 victory and ultimately first place in their group.
The Netherlands had begun the day tied at the top with Japan. But when the Samurai Blue only managed a 1-1 draw with Sweden in a game played simultaneously in Arlington, Texas, that left Virgil van Dijk and his teammates looking forward to a matchup with Group C runner-up Morocco on Monday in Monterrey, Mexico — and Japan with the heavy task of playing Brazil in the round of 32.
“These are the kind of games you want to play. These are the big games, why you want to play in the World Cup,” Dutch defender Jan Paul van Hecke said. “I think the team is prepared for a big game, and everyone knows it's game on.”
Tunisia, which sacked its coach after a loss to open the World Cup, had already been eliminated from the tournament.
The opening minutes Thursday night summed up the last couple of weeks for the Eagles of Carthage, too: Dutch defender Denzel Dumfries sent a ball across the front of the goal, Ellys Skhiri slapped at with his foot in an attempt to clear, and the Tunisian captain found the back of his own net instead.
Brobbey made it 2-0 in the seventh minute, after the Dutch had earned a free kick from about 25 yards. The 6-foot-5 van Dijk expertly headed it across the box, and Brobbey was in perfect position to chip the ball past Tunisian goalkeeper Aymen Dahmen.
“If you can’t defend,” Tunisia coach Hervé Renard said, “you can’t do anything in football.”
Tunisia finally scored in the 54th minute, when Hazem Mastouri redirected a corner kick into the net, only for the Dutch to match the goal a few minutes later, when van Hecke’s header off a corner glanced off Anis Slimane's head and into his own net.
“We (scored) directly after,” Brobbey said, “so that was a good response.”
That's an understatement.
The Netherlands controlled the game from there, even as a first-half drizzle turned into a second-half downpour.
The threat of thunderstorms had persisted all the week, and lightning briefly forced fans to take cover before the game. But once they were given the all-clear, the Dutch fans clad in their highlighter-orange shirts poured down the aisles and into the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, making it look like deer hunting season had suddenly begun in the Midwest.
“That gives you a fantastic feeling,” Dutch coach Ronald Koeman said, “when you enter the stadium and see all that orange.”
The Netherlands is certainly big-game hunting in this World Cup.
The nation of Johan Cruyff and Marco van Basten has long held the moniker of best never to have won the tournament. Three times the Dutch have advanced to the finals and each time they have lost, most recently to Spain in extra time in 2010.
They got off to a lackluster start this go-round, too, tying Japan 2-2 in their opener. But with two goals apiece from Brobby and Cody Gakpo, the Netherlands routed Sweden 5-1, and now it has some serious momentum heading into the knockout stage.
Tunisia seemed quite content just to finish a disastrous World Cup.
The Eagles of Carthage opened with a 5-1 loss to Sweden, which led to coach Sabri Lamouchi's firing. Renard took over amid reports of tension and infighting within the team, and little seemed to have changed during a 4-0 loss to Japan last week.
Tunisia has never reached the knockout rounds in seven trips to soccer's grandest stage.
“It’s a big tournament with very good teams, especially in this group. It was a very good group,” Renard said. “We needed to be much stronger, and we weren’t strong enough, so this is the conclusion.”
See more of AP’s World Cup coverage here.
Netherlands' Cody Gakpo falls over Sweden's Gustaf Lagerbielke during the World Cup Group F soccer match between the Netherlands and Sweden in Houston, Saturday, June 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Netherlands' Virgil van Dijk, left, vies for the ball with Tunisia's Elias Achouri during the World Cup Group F soccer match between Tunisia and the Netherlands in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, June 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
Netherlands' Crysencio Summerville celebrates after scoring his side's fifth goal during the World Cup Group F soccer match between the Netherlands and Sweden in Houston, Saturday, June 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Netherlands' Crysencio Summerville celebrates with Memphis Depay, left, after scoring his side's fifth goal during the World Cup Group F soccer match between the Netherlands and Sweden in Houston, Saturday, June 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Tunisia goalkeeper Mouhib Chamakh (1) punches the ball over Netherlands' Brian Brobbey (19) and Tunisia's Anis Slimane (25) during the World Cup Group F soccer match between Tunisia and the Netherlands in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, June 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Fans do the wave during the World Cup Group F soccer match between Tunisia and the Netherlands in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, June 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Netherlands' Brian Brobbey (19) celebrates their second goal with Virgil van Dijk (4) and teammates during the World Cup Group F soccer match between Tunisia and the Netherlands in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, June 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)
Tunisia's Mohamed Amine Ben Hmida (21) reacts to an own goal by teammate Ellyes Skhiri during the World Cup Group F soccer match between Tunisia and the Netherlands in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, June 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Netherlands' Brian Brobbey (19) celebrates after Tunisia's Ellyes Skhiri (17) scored an own goal during the World Cup Group F soccer match between Tunisia and the Netherlands in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, June 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
