31.   The braised beef with zinfandel and winter vegetables sounded terrific, but it would need to wait for the cool weather and all the root vegetables to return.

32.   The duck, root vegetables and apples become a ragout with duck crepes, a soup with duck ham, and a terrine.

33.   The important point is that the tian should be seasonal, which is why root vegetables are my choices now.

34.   The family of root vegetables is not a comely bunch, inspiring love, if at all, only at the end of a long, sober courtship.

35.   The long stiff bulbs, which look like overgrown scallions, with wide ribbonlike leaves flopping to their sides, lie in neat stacks among other root vegetables.

36.   The lamb shank is burnished with root vegetables and tender to the bone.

37.   The sobering reminder of the limitations of the Middle Atlantic climate is the Greenmarket, still dominated this week by apples and root vegetables.

38.   The vegetables are pot-au-feu perennials, sturdy root vegetables.

39.   They make an excellent gratin and even better fritters or pancakes, on their own or with other root vegetables like carrots.

40.   They pair well with other root vegetables.