Jitterbug Perfume is Robbins’ ode to our favorite vegetable, and this is mine. I understand why everyone loves the beet, Tom Robbins definitely loves the beet, and you should too. Let us, for the moment, suspend the laws of reality). Can turn your pee pink (I am hoping that, instead, eating enough beets will turn my skin the color of roses, like flamingos and shrimp. Aside from its international superstardom as a cross-continental delicacy, it alsoĢ. And in honor of all things legume, I will inaugurate this column, Book to Make You Look Like:_, by dedicating the first feature to the most brilliantly phantasmagoric novel to ever lionize a rooted vegetable.īut first, some important things to know about the beet:ġ. Today is January 17, which means that there are only six more months until the country’s most underrated of the unofficial holidays: National Eat Your Vegetables Day. Beets are deadly serious.” -Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. “The beet is the most intense of vegetables.
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