The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes (Mark Kurlansky) Fermentation to their carefully selected dishes

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In more than 150 recipes

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as another gaucho rides by on a horse in the background

The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes (Mark Kurlansky) Fermentation to their carefully selected dishesAs Julia Child once said, It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions. Historically, she's been right and not just in the kitchen. Uniquely flourishing in just about every climate and culture around the world, onions have provided the essential basis not only for sauts, stews, and stir fries, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Abundantly commonplace yet extraordinarily indispensable, the onion is Kurlansky's newest global food