“We almost always have a beet dish on the menu, and usually it’s in a salad of ‘stuff,’ allowing us to get a little more funky than the usual salad format of greens + veggies + crouton + dressing,” ...

These delicious recipes are just the beginning of the wonderful things you can do with the planet’s most exuberantly hued root. Few foods are as instantly festive as the earthy-sweet, richly hued beet ...

But I had good reason. My mother, to her credit, never tortured us with canned beets. We went to a local New Jersey farmstand and brought home perfectly nice fresh beets, but they only ever got cooked ...

Readers’ requests lately are as varied as the readers themselves. They have asked for recipes for butternut squash to beets to eggnog to anisette tea, and fellow readers have stepped up with recipes.

• 1 (15 1/2-ounce) jar Aunt Nellie's Harvard Beets, undrained • 1/2 cup butter, softened • 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar • 2 large eggs • 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground allspice • ...

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