Meet the Allium family: Cipolinni, sweet, white and red onions. By Judy Walker Food editor ONIONS According to some references, onions are the second-most important horticultural crop worldwide, after ...

Like humans who have similar traits to our relatives, so does the plant genus, Allium, part of the Amaryllidaceae family. The Allium genus is made up of edibles (onion, garlic, leeks, chives) and ...

It doesn’t take a person long to learn the smell of an onion. Once this smell is learned, it is easy to identify the other members of the Allium family. Some individuals cannot stand the smell of ...

For 25 years, garlic lovers from near and far have flocked to North Plains, Oregon, for the annual Elephant Garlic Festival. The event was originally a community fish fry in the mid-1990s. The idea to ...