I'm fairly certain if I make it to Heaven -- trying hard to get there -- that God will have a small table somewhere with cornbread, sliced onions and a nice pot of turnip or collard greens. There is a ...

A most important vegetable, that's what Pliny the Elder said about turnips. Pliny's declaration, even in Ancient Rome, was old news. There's evidence that turnip had been on the menu for 15 centuries ...

Woe is the story of the turnip. During the Middle Ages, when what you ate signaled your social class, nobles and ecclesiastics eschewed foodstuffs that grew in the ground. They favored foods plucked ...

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