Broccoli hmm...

So is broccoli supposed to be eaten cooked? (damn am I displaying my vegetable ignorance). I always see it on veggie platters so I assumed that it would be pretty good raw... I mean I know that it can be cooked beyond a shadow of its former self and then covered in melted cheese so that you actually can't taste anything but slime and more slime - oh no wait that's the way my mom cooks... And I've seen it in beef and broccoli but I figured that since it is on veggie trays it was fine raw. Hrm. Now I either have to figure out how to cook it (I think I might actually have the little wire shelf for my rice cooker to steam it) or try it out raw. Damn this veggie business is hard!