Personally, I love beets. But I never ate them until I was in my 40’s. My mother has a pathologic dislike of all root vegetables. (She also despises the anise family, but that’s a story for another day). Potatoes were for Christmas and Thanksgiving. Turnips, beets, sweet potatoes, radishes, they did not exist in my world.

The first time I really ate beets were the pickled, canned ones on a salad bar. So, a humble beginning… But then I discovered that you could roast them. Wow! And you can eat the greens.  I’ve been eating them ever since.

Many years ago, beets took the bum rap. When I was a juicer, they had the reputation for being empty calories that offered nothing but sugar and a funky color.

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