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Becky Selengut with Bethany Jean Clement

Misunderstood Vegetables

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Date:
Wednesday, April 3
Time:
7:30 pm PDT
Cost:
$5 – $25 Sliding Scale
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Venue

The Wyncote NW Forum
1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.)
Seattle, 98101 United States
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Book cover: A blue background with a head of Romanesco broccoli in the middle. The title "Misunderstood Vegetables: How to Fall in Love with Sunchokes, Rutabaga, Eggplant, and More" is written around the broccoli in white cursive.
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Go from “what the heck is this” to “how does it taste so good” in a celebration of misfit vegetables.

Maybe you just discovered celery root (a lumpy, softball-sized bulb), at the grocery store. Or perhaps you received watermelon radishes in a CSA package. Did a parsnip catch your eye at the farmers’ market? Even vegetables you think you know, like cabbage or brussels sprouts, will reveal next-level flavor with the right recipe.

Becky Selengut has made it her mission to take less popular — or even outright scorned vegetables like beets and okra — and cook them into irresistible dishes. It’s all about knowing how to cook or serve them and what herbs and spices to incorporate. In Misunderstood Vegetables, Selengut highlights 25 vegetables, with recipes alongside history, step-by-step preparation, and storage tips. Organized by season, recipes include Feta and Citrus Salad, Charred Chard with Spicy Chile Oil, and Celery Root Gratin.

Calling all plant-curious citizens, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to explore the world of unusual and underused produce like never before.

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Becky Selengut is an author, instructor, podcaster, and chef based in Seattle. Her books include: How to TasteShroomGood Fish, and Not One Shrine. Her latest book Misunderstood Vegetables is slated for publication by W.W. Norton (Countryman Press) for February 20, 2024. Selengut is the co-host of the local foods podcast Field to Fork. When Selengut is not the chef aboard the M/V Thea Foss, she forages, makes a mean Manhattan, and shares her life with her sommelier wife April Pogue and their lovably loony pointer mix Izzy. 

Bethany Jean Clement is a food critic for the Seattle Times. Her writing has also appeared in multiple Best Food Writing anthologies, Food & WineThe StrangerEdible Seattle, Gourmet, and many other publications, as well as on the windows of the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. She is the former food writer and managing editor of The Stranger, and a former staff writer and managing editor for Seattle Weekly.


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