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 ...

These beet deviled eggs are a vibrant twist on a classic appetizer. Hard-boiled eggs soak in a tangy beet brine with bay leaves and black peppercorns until they turn a beautiful magenta color, then ...

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Even for vegetable lovers, beets can be a hard sell. Beets are one of those love-'em-or-hate-'em vegetables, with strong opinions on both sides. As beets come into their peak season from late summer ...

Beets, beautiful beets! I realize this sentiment isn’t widespread; people either love beets or firmly loathe them. Beets have a distinctly sweet, earthy taste owed to the organic bacteria geosmin and ...

Puréed beets were an early solid food that met with approval from my son. The continued re-introduction of vegetables in more age-appropriate forms has become a fun challenge for me in the kitchen.

“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,” ...