I shouldn't expect too (find one at the supermarket). Apart from sugar
production, I don't think sugarbeets generally have another culinary
purpose.
Cheers,
Marc (close to old sugar cane fields and rusting cane-car railway lines)
On Saturday, May 1, 2010, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My upstate New York backyard doesn't have any cane at all. There's
> plenty of cane in Florida but most of it is about 150-200 miles away
> from my winter place. The cane is on the south side of Lake Okeechobee.
> While I've never seen a sugar beet I just learned that the US is the
> 4th largest producer of sugar in the world and that 50% of that is from
> sugar beets.
> <http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/February05/Findings/Sugarbeets.htm>
> But I can't find one in the supermarket.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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