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A red beet risotto for the most controversial vegetable. You either hate it or love it.
Recipe on my blog.
Originally named Hughes, Brighton is in the South Platte valley and benefited greatly in agriculture from the construction of large irrigation systems along the river. The Brighton community had been interested in its own beet sugar factory since at least 1901 and got their first one with the Keyes Syrup Company plant (Keyes was the name of its general manager) which was built in 1906 on donated land. The factory didn't live long and closed a year later. Candy Hamilton's book tells the complete story of the failure which can be summarized by saying that this independent factory was already surrounded by GW growers and had a difficult time competing for farmers to grow beets.
Ten years later, Brighton tried again. The Farmers and Merchants of Adams County successfully convinced Great Western to build a Brighton sugar beet factory. It didn't hurt that 1916 was a boom year for Colorado beets, surpassing all previous records with a whopping 2.7 million tons of beets processed vs. 1.7M in 1914 (the Longmont factory was the top producer in the state for 1916, paying out $1,125,000 to farmers). The Larrowe Construction Company of Detroit got the $1,500,000 contract for the factory and machinery, and GW fully billed Brighton as a "showcase for the corporation."
Brighton Sugar Factory circa 1918
Being the closest GW factory to Denver, the Brighton factory was designed for visitors and dignitaries in mind, having landscaped lawns and shrubs, a gated entrance, and a modern administration building. President Eisenhower was probably the most famous visitor to the Brighton factory, stopping by on a Tuesday, September 14, 1954.
The Brighton factory operated for 60 years until 1977, closing the same year as the Longmont factory. It's record processing day was 2,678 tons on November 30, 1964 (from Hamilton's book).
Today, the Brighton factory still stands along north Main Street and is owned by Amalgamated Sugar. Until recently, some of the factory equipment was still up for sale on the company web site and part of the site is still used for warehousing today. Unlike other remaining GW factories, Brighton has its grounds fenced off from a noticeable distance.
The beetroot is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in Canada and the USA as beets while the vegetable is referred to as beetroot in British English, and also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet, dinner beet or golden beet.
Holly Sugar's Alco S6 spots some sugar beet cars at the refinery in Hamilton City, California. The ex-Southern Pacific switch engine would shove sugar beet cars up a ramp so they could be positioned over a pit where the beet loads were discharged.
The first painting since I left Buffalo for the summer, Beets is more or less an experiment for me. I tried extremely hard to preserve intensity in the vegetables and to make their bright and warm colors the focus of the painting. I think for the most part the chroma is successful while still true to the local color and actual color of the subject. I especially like the flora that sits in the back of the painting (near the top) with its bright rose and mauve tones.
Arches cold press, about 6x8 inches.
There is something magical that happens when you roast vegetables, and roasting beets is no exception! They take on a rustic flavor profile, and they’re so good that you’ll want to eat them all the time. Serve them on their own as a side dish, or chop them up and add them to salads. Be sure to use both orange and purple beets for gorgeous color!
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This image is for the group Get Pushed where you are paired with a partner and "pushed" outside of your comfort zone as a photographer. For Round 14, I was paired with kendall bouchlas.
Here is her challenge to me: "Love the photos in your stream! I was thinking for this challenge you could try a food shot. Hope you enjoy the challenge!"
I have a lot of pie photos, but that's pretty much the extent of my food photography. So I decided to do something different, and access my inner beet...or more accurately, access some pickled beets (homemade by my best friend Victor's dad). About a million shots later, this is the one I landed on.
Thanks so much for the push, Kendall!!
I'm already looking forward to Round 15! ;)
loads of them in the polytunnel
we boil these then roast with balsamic and oil
the boiled beets freeze really well for future roasting so the current glut is welcome.
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