ISSUE 88, GRAB BAG, Part 4: The Red Bermuda Onion?
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The Red Bermuda Onion? My grandfather E P Shields loved a good onion. He’d cut a thick disk of raw sweet onion to put on his improvised sandwiches—peanut butter & onion, tomato and onion, and fried egg and onion with mayo. When it came to onions he had a preference—the red Bermuda. I went produce shopping with him on numerous occasions and saw him gauge purple red globes for girth and heft. He left us long ago, at age 93, in 1987. So he won’t be disappointed to learn that his favorite onion was a fraud. The Red Sweet was not a Bermuda Onion, but an independent strain of onion, rounder and sassier than the sweet crystal wax white and flat yellow onions grown on the island of Bermuda from the 1840s on.
ISSUE 88, GRAB BAG, Part 4: The Red Bermuda Onion?
ISSUE 88, GRAB BAG, Part 4: The Red Bermuda…
ISSUE 88, GRAB BAG, Part 4: The Red Bermuda Onion?
The Red Bermuda Onion? My grandfather E P Shields loved a good onion. He’d cut a thick disk of raw sweet onion to put on his improvised sandwiches—peanut butter & onion, tomato and onion, and fried egg and onion with mayo. When it came to onions he had a preference—the red Bermuda. I went produce shopping with him on numerous occasions and saw him gauge purple red globes for girth and heft. He left us long ago, at age 93, in 1987. So he won’t be disappointed to learn that his favorite onion was a fraud. The Red Sweet was not a Bermuda Onion, but an independent strain of onion, rounder and sassier than the sweet crystal wax white and flat yellow onions grown on the island of Bermuda from the 1840s on.