turnip
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About all he can tell us of daily life in the 16th century is that Muscovites loved turnip pie, had few chairs, and that glass was not to be had.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Boonthom had noticed her packing the harvested fruit — a turnip variety Yo describes as a “cross between a potato and an apple” — and had been love-struck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
While most dark green vegetables — especially collard greens, broccoli raab, turnip greens and kale — provide calcium, spinach and beet greens contain oxalic acid, which makes their calcium unavailable to us.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
I'm partial to celeriac, rutabaga, turnip, radish and the like.
From Salon ● May 14, 2023
Rosie wraps her trunk around some turnip greens and rips them from the ground.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
In the 19th century, children gobbled chiles and mutton and turnips and jellied pig’s brain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Most convicts had been found guilty of theft, with many being repeat offenders, but some were deported for crimes as petty as trampling on the turnips of the local aristocracy.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025
Yes, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Arnold Palmer tucked in a bib and tucked into the haggis, accompanied by neeps and tatties, cute Scottish names for turnips and potatoes, mashed and buttered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025
When she bought other, lesser-known vegetables at the supermarket — the book also features burdock, celery root, escarole, turnips and 18 more — the checkers wouldn’t know the codes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
The wife came every day and cleaned my ear and my arm and felt my forehead and gave me water and carrots and boiled turnips.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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