You know what's underappreciated?
 

Root vegetables.

Everyone likes potatoes, so they're not really underappreciated. And onions, too. And carrots, of course. They're the Big Three. But it's the others that don't get the recognition they deserve. Turnips. Rutabagas. Parsnips. Beets. You take a bunch of those and cook them up in the oven, and you've got a tasty and nutritious side dish with very little effort.

Seriously, parsnips can roll with the best of them. You can't beat a good batch of parsnips, but in truth the four of them are more like a quartet. You can have a good tenor, a good alto, a good bass, and a good soprano, but it's when you cook them all up together that you really get that harmony that makes you tap your feet.

Root vegetables. If you haven't had them, do so tonight. They're available at your nearest grocer.

Mmmm.. and some powdered milk.

If you don't put Rutabaga in with your beef pot roast you evidently are an idiot and are wasting oxygen.

King Paul Cried Out For Good Stew!

I don't believe that I've ever seen a "Parsnip," let alone consumed one.

Limey. They don't grow across the pond?

I'm personally offended that radishes weren't listed. :harumph:

my favorite flower is an artichoke...

I just looked them up. Yes, I've had them and they make me vomit.

how do you cook turnips?

Man, you are missing a few here.

Yuca
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...a_dsc07325.jpg

Yam
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...xtonMarket.jpg

Yautía
http://www.kallus.com/aroids/yautiatuber.jpg

Sweet Potatoes
http://sweettater.files.wordpress.co...eet-potato.jpg

Is mandrake a root vegetable?

yup

http://www.dicts.info/img/ud/mandrake2.jpg

I don't believe you. Anything that ever made me vomit I can promise you I would never have to "look up".

Okay, okay, so I missed a few. No man has a unlimited horizon-to-horizon view of the fabulous universe of root vegetables.