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Spring Means Ramps Invade Greenmarket
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Jaya Saxena
Published Mar 29, 2010
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Who's excited for Ramp season?! Oh, you don't know what they are? Well, the Ramp (or wild leek) is the culinary harbinger of spring, a combination of garlic and onion flavor in a shallot-like bulb. It's pretty much foodie heroin. They'll supposedly be back Wednesday at Rick Bishop’s Mountain Sweet Berry Farm at the Union Square Greenmarket, and Bishop says this could be one of the best seasons yet, telling Grub Street the combination of warmth and rain is "as if I ordered the weather." Ordering some mints after eating these would also be a good idea.
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