Learn all about beets, one of the world’s most under-appreciated root vegetables, at the next Wednesday Night at the Lab, held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on August 18th, in Room 1111 (the auditorium) at 425 Henry Mall (the Genetics-Biotechnology Center Building).
Irwin Goldman, a Professor of Horticulture, will deliver a presentation titled “The Beet Goes On: Health, Nutrition, and Social Justice from an Under-appreciated Root Vegetable.”
According to Goldman, “While generations of children have confronted the challenges of canned vegetables, beets and many other root crops can be roasted and prepared in ways that breathe new life into this ancient vegetable. Australians, for example, typically put beet slices on their burgers, much in the way Americans use tomato and lettuce. And beets turn out to have a number of nutritional benefits that make them an ideal complement to a healthy diet. Along the way, they have given rise to the modern sugarbeet, played an important role in Wisconsin’s agriculture, and served to fulfill the suggestion by Michael Pollan that it’s a good idea to seek out foods that your great-grandmother would have recognized.”
Wednesday Nite @ the Lab is organized by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. Programs are free and open to the public,
Note: There is FREE parking in Lot 20, 1390 University Avenue. Lot 20 is a three-level parking structure on the right side of University Avenue, just before Henry Mall. Lot 20 is attached to the Genetics/Biotechnology Center. Park on the top level, and you can enter the building without going up any steps.
