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Article: Root down.(root vegetables)
- Article from:
- Art Culinaire
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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"I kick it root down / I put my root down It's not a put down/ I put my
foot down And then I make some love / I put my root down"
--The Beastie Boys, "Root Down" (1994)
ROOT VEGETABLES and tubers--those bumpy, dirt-clotted mainstays of fall, winter and early spring menus--rarely get the credit they quietly deserve. Having long played frumpy understudy to the far more glamorous and colorful members of the vegetable kingdom, they make it possible for chefs in even the coldest climates to observe a semblance of seasonality.
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