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A clear glass of purple-red carrot ferment beside black carrots and mustard seeds on ivory wood.
Vegetables

The purple carrot came first

Purple and yellow carrots preceded Europe's orange root. In Punjab, kanji kept kali gajar working as a lactic drink substrate long after orange took the supermarket.

· 13 min read

An oak half-barrel under undyed linen beside a brown bowl of deep red beet barszcz, three raw beetroots and a bunch of green leaves.
Vegetables

Before the beetroot: how barszcz lost its hogweed

Before beetroot, Polish barszcz was a soup of soured hogweed leaves. Herbals, menus and an old cookbook show how a rye sour and then the beet barrel took over its name.

· 12 min read