>>Hey, the guy eats steaks & jambalaya. He should start with a really good Ozzie Shiraz. Nosh on a little blue cheese (I like Stilton) with walnut pieces. Reset with broccoli or cauliflower as you suggest, or maybe cucumber or even grapefruit segments. Or apple slices.
LOL, a connoisseur, no less! But IME a really good sunshine Aussie Shiraz is a big ask for a newbie who doesn't like red.
Maybe he can try both? Not sure how popular blue vein cheese is in the US, either, though on big US projects I'd buy sourdough baguettes, grapes, Wisconsin blue vein, turkey with no preservative and salad- and I'd live on US-style jambon crudite for days punctuated by an occasional visit to Outback for a steak.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
