>Finally, cooking with spices makes vegetables much more varied. Americans seem to think spices and rubs are only for meat and vegetables need to be plain. A well spiced vegetable dish is delicious.

No, you are wrong. And that a pitfall that for some reason a lot of people fall into.

ALL dishes need spices to make food taste better. All meat is seasoned when cooked. Why people cook vegies without seasoning and complain its bland is strange to me.