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A MODEST EFFORT AT MAKING YOUR PARSNIPHOBES TRUE BELIEVERS
'FAIRE words,'' said an anonymous writer in 1639, ''butter noe parsnips.'' He could be axiomatic about the humble parsnip because in the 17th century, and indeed back to Roman times, buttered to be sure, it was a genuine staple and not the rarity it is on tables today. But why so rare? Why do so many people even profess to hate parsnips or shrug them off, as a friend did recently by saying, ''Well, you have to draw the line somewhere.'' Why indeed does this wonderful vegetable - what the Oxford English Dictionary describes as a ''biennial umbelliferous plant'' with its ''pinnate leaves, yellow flowers and pale yellow root, fleshy, sweet and nutritious'' - have such a bad press? Perhaps because of distant memories of being forced as a child to eat parsnips overcooked or badly cooked. Perhaps your last parsnip was an aged parsnip, which, like an aged carrot, is no fun. (The Victorians thought old parnsips caused vertigo, and Isabella Beeton in her ''Book of Household Management,'' published in 1861, tells of an entire family that became delirious - the result of eating old parsnips.) Perhaps it is simply ignorance of how delicious parsnips can be when properly prepared.
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A MODEST EFFORT AT MAKING YOUR PARSNIPHOBES TRUE BELIEVERS
'FAIRE words,'' said an anonymous writer in 1639, ''butter noe parsnips.'' He could be axiomatic about the humble parsnip because in the 17th century, and indeed back to Roman times, buttered to be sure, it was a genuine staple and not the rarity it is on tables today. But why so rare? Why do so many people even profess to hate parsnips or shrug them off, as a friend did recently by saying, ''Well, you have to draw the line somewhere.'' Why indeed does this wonderful vegetable - what the Oxford English Dictionary describes as a ''biennial umbelliferous plant'' with its ''pinnate leaves, yellow flowers and pale yellow root, fleshy, sweet and nutritious'' - have such a bad press? Perhaps because of distant memories of being forced as a child to eat parsnips overcooked or badly cooked. Perhaps your last parsnip was an aged parsnip, which, like an aged carrot, is no fun. (The Victorians thought old parnsips caused vertigo, and Isabella Beeton in her ''Book of Household Management,'' published in 1861, tells of an entire family that became delirious - the result of eating old parsnips.) Perhaps it is simply ignorance of how delicious parsnips can be when properly prepared.
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