According to Suetonius, Augustus issued orders to be done “quicker than you can cook” this food as his way of saying “and make it snappy.” A still life by Manet depicting this food was once owned by the Nazi collaborator Hermann Josef Abs, according to a series of panels by Hans Haacke tracing its provenance. Melanippus was conceived after Theseus coaxed Perigune out of hiding from a bed of this vegetable. Allied gliders in Normandy were only somewhat (*) deterred by the wooden poles nicknamed for this food which were set by Erwin Rommel’s men. A carboxamide side chain is found in the amino acid that takes its name from this vegetable, (10[2])whose single-letter symbol is N. For 10 points, name this (10[1])vegetable that comes in stalks and alters the smell of urine. ■END■