Beets for Life!

I'm glad someone else was paying attention to Tom Robbin's beet love in Jitterbug Perfume.  Aside from being in the list of my top 10 favorite novels, Robbins also used Jitterbug as a vehicle for discourse on the lowly beet.  This writer over at Saveur.com talks about the Tom Robbins/beet connection, and provides several good-looking beet recipes to try out!