tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27012455.post114689493337764236..comments2024-03-29T07:06:53.408-07:00Comments on Vegetable Adventures: Those Root Vegetable Leaves!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27012455.post-1146968864084415292006-05-06T19:27:00.000-07:002006-05-06T19:27:00.000-07:00Hmmm. Thinking about that all day, I've come up wi...Hmmm. Thinking about that all day, I've come up with the reason for it's being so unlikely: you dig for potatoes, while you pull turnips and carrots.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and definitely catch Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont - if not on a big screen, at least as a novel. That's where I did the thinking...Shunrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17016600058016957827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27012455.post-1146941906971838322006-05-06T11:58:00.000-07:002006-05-06T11:58:00.000-07:00Wow! I didn't know that... I mean, I knew the "sto...Wow! I didn't know that... I mean, I knew the "stone soup" story was not Israeli to begin with, but I didn't know Grandpa Eliezer had Russian roots (pun intended). Actually, it isn't all that surprising: one would assume that stories about root vegetables would originate from Eastern Europe. Though perhaps the Irish have one. About a potato.Hadarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02679534968114656918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27012455.post-1146919377302973642006-05-06T05:42:00.000-07:002006-05-06T05:42:00.000-07:00As to that carrot - I ran across that story in a s...As to that carrot - I ran across that story in a slightly different form: the story of the turnip. <BR/><BR/>It is apparently and unsurprisingly a Russian folktale, which was Hebraized (more than just translated) in the service of you-know-what-ism. With no credit, because they never did give credit to their sources. <BR/><BR/>It's easily googleable, but <A HREF="http://www.rustoys.com/Turnip.htm" REL="nofollow">here is</A> one version. The story was apparently popularized (among other things) by the efforts of Aleksey Tolstoi.Shunrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17016600058016957827noreply@blogger.com