Egyptian onion anatomy
I think that if my family had
a crest, it would have an Egyptian onion
smack dab in the middle. So I thought you'd enjoy this video that
my mother and sister cooked up between them walking you through the
anatomy of the Egyptian onion while also telling how the Egyptian onion
entered our lives.
What got left on the
cutting room floor was the tale of how, when my
grandmother enthusiastically carried these "round trip onions" all the
way home to Massachusetts from Virginia, her sister smiled and
nodded. You see, my aunt Ruth (who
wrote for Organic Gardening) had been growing Egyptian
onions in
her garden next door all along.
Perhaps Egyptian onions
are just prone to being overlooked. My
own father only started cooking with them last year when I treated him
to a start from my garden's excess. Now, he's turned into an
Egyptian onion pusher too. Meanwhile, Mark's mother also got some
bulblets from
me a couple of years ago and is doing her best to populate the
entire state of Ohio. What's not to love about Egyptian onions?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Daddy --- "Walking onion" is another name for them. Too bad you didn't get turned onto them then --- you could have had another 35 years of delicious seasoning.
Lisa --- I'd been trying to decide whether to sell the top bulbs this year. Sounds like I'll have to....
Trashmaster --- Glad they're starting to work for you!