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Article: SweetStuff: Sweet onion season keeps getting longer
- Article from:
- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- February 3, 1999
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SWEET onion lovers could wait until March for the first shipments
of Vidalias and Texas Sweets. /FD:"Lead"
Or, they could rush right
down to their favorite supermarket and pick up some OSO Sweets.
For those who think an onion is an onion, specialty sweets are
bred to be everything the regular onion isn't: high in sugar, high
in
water, and very low in those tear-inducing sulfur compounds in
other
words, sweet and mild.
Only 10 years ago, sweet onions were a "spring-into-summer" crop,
until food broker Jim Huston of Lansing, Mich., decided he wanted
some sweets in winter, too.
Soon the OSO (Oh, so) Sweet onion was born where the seasons are
reversed from ours - in Chile at the base of the ...