Lots of people couldn’t wait for the return of the Turnip. Â A few, maybe are really dreading it. Â Enzo gets credit for the sign, we ran this last year.
All of the seasonal sandwiches start with an ingredient that is great at that particular time of the year. I was thinking about creating a sandwich with apples, and there’s that classic New England pairing of  apple pie and cheddar.  So we came up with the apple spread and cheddar cheese. I wanted a dark leafy green so I chose bunch spinach, which is picked time-wise in between baby spinach and the more fibrous older spinach. I needed a main component to add bulk to the sandwich.  I thought, pumpkin, carrots, sweet potatoes, celery root. I figured sweet apple spread and cheese might play nicely against the peppery and bitter turnip.
At first I called this sandwich the Apple. But in the sandwich the apple was really playing a secondary role. Â Also, who else, in their right mind, would ever make a sandwich featuring a turnip? Â So that question sealed it. The one and only Turnip is back. Â Started at MIT on Tuesday and will be rolling out to other locations through the week.