How To Eat In The Wild Part 11: Ramp Rub/Dried Ramps
I’ve covered the glorious seasonal treats that are ramps previously for this column, and...
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How To Eat In The Wild: And they are up! Ramps are back.
I suppose I shouldn’t have been too surprised considering the unusually warm weekend we just...
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How To Eat In The Wild Part 7 : Fermented Ramps AKA Tjeremsha
I’ve covered the glorious seasonal treats that are ramps previously for this column,...
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How To Eat In The Wild Part 2 : Ramps, Dandelions, And Fiddleheads
Ramps, dandelions, and fiddleheads… what a veritable feast from the forest’s spring...
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Ramp It Up
Malcolm Jolley welcomes a long overdue ramp season. When the history of the good food revolution...
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Pancetta Arrotolata
Malcolm Jolley finds the vehicle to pasta his way through spring. The ramps are getting to be...
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Jamie Kennedy presents a Spring Feast at Gilead
We all perk up at Gilead when spring’s arrival is announced by the appearance of local asparagus,...
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Viva La Primavera!
by Lauren Wilson for Viva Tastings, a ‘Certified Good Food Fighter’ Spring has...
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They’re Called Ramps
Chefs and home cooks alike have been quietly bragging this week with the (relatively late) arrival of alluvium ticoccum, or “ramps”. They’re a wild woods onion that grows among hardwood stands (mostly maple) from Chicago to Montreal. I am few days into my stash (which I forage sustainably and with permission every year from a secret location on private property in Durham County) and I’ve enjoyed mine so far with scrambled eggs, a sausage and ramp pasta (with a dash of cream), and a marinade and stuffing for chicken breasts (see recipe below).
Read MoreWild Leeks Arrive in Ontario
by Malcolm Jolley [A 2011 GFR update on Ontario ramps or wild leeks is available here – Ed.] On a drizzly April day about five years ago, on my family’s property in Durham County, about an hour northeast of Toronto,...
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