Turnips: how Britain fell out of love with the much-maligned vegetable
Turnips: how Britain fell out of love with the much-maligned vegetable: Hand-coloured etching of a king and his turnip (1819). © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-SA Environment secretary Thérèse Coffey’s recent suggestion that Britons should turn to turnips following tomato shortages did not go down as she might have hoped. In trying …