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Onions

Vidalia onions must be planted, harvested, and cured by hand.

Looking for the Perfect Onion

From Georgia to New Zealand, the quest for a sweet, painless onion continues.

Mark Kurlansky November 7, 2023

Ships under repair in Bermuda in 1871.

Remembering When Bermuda Was an Onion Island

Mark Twain once called the allium the “pride and joy of Bermuda.”

Diana Hubbell August 25, 2021

Potato vending machine.

Heuvelland, Belgium

Potato Vending Machine

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

Ramps appear in early spring across the eastern United States.

The Rush for Ramps Is Threatening Millennia-Old Foodways

Native harvesters' access to the wild plant is jeopardized by its trendiness.

Amanda Gokee June 9, 2021

Kolkja Kala-ja sibularestoran.

Kolkja, Estonia

Kolkja Kala-ja Sibularestora (Kolkja Old Believers Restaurant)

This unique eatery offers a taste of Estonia's "Onion Route."

Fried Onion Burgers

A Depression-era patty filler paved the way for an Oklahoma favorite.

Jucy Lucy

This beef patty oozes cheese from within.

Bone-In Pork Chop Sandwich

Mind your teeth when eating this juicy Chicago specialty.

At first, archaeologists believed the object to be a nut, it is really a burnt onion.

Found: 1,500-Year-Old Burnt Onion Linked to 'Sweden's Pompeii'

The ancient vegetable affirms a Swedish island's ties to the Roman Empire.

Christina Ayele Djossa April 12, 2018

Handkäse Mit Musik

The stinky cheese comes with onions and bathroom humor.

Calcots are longer than your average onion.

Calçot

The Catalan green onion has its own festival.

Vidalia onions.

Vidalia, Georgia

Vidalia Onion Museum

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

Cutting onions triggers tears thanks to the bulb's lachrymatory factor.

Scientists Now Know Exactly Why Onions Make You Cry

They've unlocked the chemical secrets of an irritating molecule.

Kelsey Kennedy August 2, 2017

Garbage Plate

Rochester, New York

Garbage Plates at Nick Tahou Hots

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

In 1959, British Scientists Carefully Perfected the Pickled Onion

It was all for the "notoriously fickle pickle-fancying public."

Lauren Young February 24, 2017