{"id":746,"date":"2017-02-12T16:01:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T22:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=746"},"modified":"2017-02-12T16:07:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T22:07:18","slug":"a-pair-of-beet-recipes-savory-and-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2017\/02\/12\/a-pair-of-beet-recipes-savory-and-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pair of Beet Recipes: Savory and Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beets are weird and scary, right? The scientific name says it all: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beta_vulgaris\">Beta vulgaris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as a former beet skeptic, I can attest to its versatility and deliciousness in all sorts of dishes. If you want to be daring and try your hand at cooking with these common and inexpensive winter vegetables, download the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/02\/Beet-Recipes-Final.pdf\">PDF of beet recipes<\/a> to get started. They&#8217;re designed so you can use the WHOLE beet, from root to leaf.<\/p>\n<p>In it you&#8217;ll find a recipe for the <strong>greens<\/strong> (rich in fiber, as well as Vitamins A and C): prepared with garlic and olive oil, as well as a recipe for the <strong>roots<\/strong> themselves: a dense chocolatey cake that you wouldn&#8217;t believe had vegetables in it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmorethanborscht.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F03%2Fbeets-6.jpg&amp;f=1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/images.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmorethanborscht.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F03%2Fbeets-6.jpg&amp;f=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small bunch of beets, with greens. Image courtesy of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/morethanborscht.wordpress.com\/\">More Than Borscht<\/a>&#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beets are weird and scary, right? The scientific name says it all: Beta vulgaris. Yet as a former beet skeptic, I can attest to its versatility and deliciousness in all sorts of dishes. If you want to be daring and try your hand at cooking with these common and inexpensive winter vegetables, download the PDF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}