Article: SweetStuff: Sweet onion season keeps getting longer

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 ...

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