[Sca-cooks] swiss chard =/= beet greens?

[Carole Smith]

Aren't the leaves of modern beets edible?  
 
I have been told by cooks I thought knowledgeable that the roots of the beet were not considered food in period, but that the leaves were.  It hasn't been on my hot list to verify this one.
 
Cordelia Toser

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:
Greetings! I had heard (and told others) that swiss chard was the modern 
version of 'leaf beet'. Of course now I can't remember where I found 
that info, and some friends of mine and I were wondering about it. 
Anyone have a more concrete answer and be awake enough to produce it? 
Thank you!

(Stefan, if the answer is in the Florilegium, that's wonderful but my 
brain is not ready to handle the kind of search statement that would get 
that out without trudging through lots of recipes calling for 
chard/beets!)

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