Quotes About Beets

I've worked the ranch. I've hauled sugar beets from the field.

Beets, they claim, taste like dirt. And they do, actually, although most beet aficionados prefer the term "earthy.

I love roasted beets with goat cheese. I am also a fruit addict.

beets were washed, sliced, and boiled to extract a syrup, which was then filtered, carbonated, combined with lime and sulfurous acid, evaporated, crystallized, and centrifuged to produce white sugar.

I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

Breath Properly, Stay Curious, and Always Eat Your Beets!

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.

Of course, there are white beets, beets that ooze sugar water instead of blood, but it is the red beet with which we are concerned; the variety that blushes and swells like a hemorrhoid, a hemorrhoid for which there is no cure. (Actually, there is one remedy: commission a potter to make you a ceramic asshole—and when you aren't sitting on it, you can use it as a bowl for borscht.)

It was sweetened with beet sugar, which gave it an odd, earthy taste, because beets always tasted like dirt.

I will say one of my favorite Russian side dishes is beet salad. It is dehydrated beets chopped very finely with nuts. It is a great side dish. I would like to try to make this when I get home. The nuts make it!

We make the beet salad by steaming the beets until soft, about thirty minutes, plunging into cold water, and removing the skins. After cutting the beets into small cubes, we toss them with a vinaigrette of orange juice, vinegar, olive oil, and shallots, adding crumbles of goat cheese and green onion, for color and taste and crunch, at the end.

Crops starting out as weeds included rye and oats, turnips and radishes, beets and leeks, and lettuce.

I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.

red beets with shallots,

Beets are a flavorful, versatile vegetable with a very high concentration of a class of antioxidants known as betalains. Research has shown that betalains have uniquely powerful anti-inflammatory properties, so they help athletes with postworkout recovery.

But for those that ripen and are then harvested within a short window, such as beets or spinach, make sure to plant them in grids that will be accessible for replanting—don't bury them in the middle squares where it will be more difficult to replant.