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Onions, Garlic, and Leeks Provide Many Nutritional Benefits By Rebecca Taggart There is nary a cuisine that doesn’t include allium vegetables. Onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, and scallions are all members of the Allium genus, and are fundamental to so many dishes that cooking without them would be challenging. Although rich in flavor, they seem to [...]
By Judith Redmond of Full Belly Farm Visitors to Capay Valley farms often get a lesson in the advantages of crop diversity: there are dozens of vegetables, fruits, nuts, herbs and flowers growing in the valley, not to mention the conservation plantings where one native shrub or another is in bloom almost any time of [...]
Laugh Till You Cry The Purple Onion is a tiny basement club in San Francisco’s North Beach. It had its heyday in the ‘50s & ’60s when, it launched a thousand cultural icons. The old Purple Onion hosted comedy groundbreakers, such as Lenny Bruce (“‘Life’ is a four-letter word.”), Richard Pryor (“There’s a thin line [...]
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