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    KNOW YOUR Onions

    Sep 05, 2018 3 minutes
    WORDS: CHRIS STAFFORD

    Is there another vegetable as versatile and widely consumed as the onion? Is there one as celebrated in literature as well as in popular culture? To paraphrase Shrek, onions — like ogres — have layers.

    People of a certain age will remember that maddening novelty song from the 1960s, , but the truth is we humans have been loving this juicy bulb for an estimated 7000 years. The ancient Egyptians saw in its spherical, multilayered form a symbol of eternal life and onion has been detected in the eye sockets of mummies, as if applied as a

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