And now for a literary aside...I recently ran across this quote from Tom Robbins' book Jitterbug Perfume about the humble beet. Makes me want to fix this for dinner.
"The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic People get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip. . ."
Sigh. If only I could find language like that to use in this blog. Bravo, Mr. Robbins.
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