Re: Ramps
- Subject: Re: Ramps
- From: "Merri Morgan" m*@wcgnet.net
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 07:48:22 -0400
In West Virginia, ramps are one of the three most important things about
spring, the other two being creesy greens and morels. They are in the lily
family. Towns, churches, civic groups hold ramp dinners and festivals.
They are cooked in every imaginable dish, but it takes real mountain
toughness to eat them raw. Some school districts have regulations that
require students who have eaten a lot of raw ramps to be sent out of the
classroom--they exude the odor.
Merri Morgan
Zone 5b, WV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Martinson" <llmen@wi.rr.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 8:34 PM
Subject: Ramps
>
> The other morning on the NBC Today Show cooking segment, one of the
> ingredients used was referred to as "ramps" and was described as in
> the onion family. The only reference I was able to find was that
> ramps are wild onions grown in the woods in Virginia and the Ohio
> Valley. So are they a type of wild leek?
>
> Can anyone expand on this?
> --
> Don Martinson
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> l*@wi.rr.com
>
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