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Tag: beets

Warm Beet Soup with Cumin and Sour Cream

September 19, 20123 Comments

I can't think about beets without remembering the Gilligan's Island episode where the radioactive seeds wash into the lagoon, and the resulting vegetables wreak havoc on the castaways. Mrs. Howell eats the sugarbeets and, if I remember correctly, cleans everything on the island in a burst of super-charged energy. Before you run out to the … Continue reading Warm Beet Soup with Cumin and Sour Cream

The Weekly Ode: Beets

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012Leave a comment

Few things make me happier than food and poetry, so every Monday, I will strive to post something that brings those things together! The Victory of the Beet-Fields *published by the Poetry Foundation By Louis Untermeyer Green miles of leafy peace are spread    Over these ranks, unseen and serried; Screening the trenches with their dead    And … Continue reading The Weekly Ode: Beets

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