And this might also explain the extraordinary humanity of her work, the same grace and reserve invoked whether photographing a head of state or a turnip.
German has three genders, seemingly so random that Mark Twain wondered why "a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has".
Generations of Mississippians grew up on farms where everything, even collards and turnip greens, were cooked with bacon grease, ham hock or lard; a tradition that remains today.
Half the dishes were standard Chinese; the other half were standard Chinese, battered and deep-fried.At a family restaurant, I ate a mountain of fried chicken, black-eyed peas, cornbread and turnip greens, washed down with sweet ice tea.
Mark Twain once pointed out, "In German, a young girl has no sex, but a turnip has".
Mark Twain wondered why "a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has"Whorfianism has been criticised for years, but it has been making a comeback.
The past two decades have witnessed a sharp decline in the numbers of teenagers poring over French verbs, let alone the oddities of German, which as Mark Twain, a 19th-century American writer, observed, renders a girl neuter but a turnip feminine.In 1993 over 315,000 pupils sat the 16-plus exam in French, compared with just over 177,000 this year.
Happy eaters heap their plates with fried chicken, black-eyed peas, cornbread and turnip greens, chase it down with glasses of sweet ice tea and finish with banana pudding.
He gazed out over their heads; his face was round and turnip-white.
Its apple-sized, turnip-shaped roots are the source of an ancient purgative, still in use.
Hamburg parsley, or turnip-rooted parsley (P. crispum var. tuberosum), is grown for its large, white, parsniplike root, which is popular in Europe.
