ramps: the indiest vegetable?

apparently they are wild leeks that taste like onions + garlic and make you smell for days??

(sorry if everyone's been ramping it up for years and i'm tuomasing about this)

good with pasta.

The vegetable of fairy tales! In the orig Rapunzel it's ramps the woodcutter's wife is craving while pregnant, so her Dear Husband steals rampion from the witch's garden and gets caught and promises her his unborn child to save himself. Hence the whole tower-and-hair thing.

Common in France and Germany, which certainly jibes with the story origin.

otm, xxp. they don't seem very indie to me.

Not the indiest veggie, but possibly the glammiest:

Baby I've got metal knees ooh.
Lady I'm beggin' of you please
Baby you think you're a champ but
Girl you ain't nothin' but a raw ramp.
Lady, your lips are the most
Baby, your mouth is like a ghost
Lady, you think you're a champ but
Girl you ain't nothin' but a raw ramp.

so good!
union market has them every spring.i put them in all sorts of stuff.

A bit like wild garlic but less so if you know what I mean.

Both delicious.

SWEDE surely!!!

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/r/ramp~~~~~~~_comeintok_101b.jpg

Oh, I love this time of year. For mother's day dinner, we had ramps, morels and wild asparagus. If the fishing wasn't all muddied up it would've been a 100 percent gathered feast.

ramp disaster last night, though - they were bigger than usual and ended up being really strong. too strong to eat, in fact.

^^love that record

the early smaller ones are the best for sure.
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I have not experienced ramps, I'll have to try when I am stateside next week.

Ramps are good but the indiest vegetable? Not fiddlehead ferns or nettles or something?

dandelion greens for sure.

i foraged some upstate last weekend. it's a very short season, cause, as mentioned, they get too big and are no longer tasty. crazy prices for these at farmer's markets. pretty much all profit.

rhubarb

it is neither uncommon nor strange, but it is so unique and wondrous to me

It's funny 'cause these are all quite common to some culture or another.

is it fiddlehead season yet? i don't wanna miss out again this year

fiddleheads + lemon/lavender reduction = A+

Sea cale is surely the most indie, apparently there's just one dude in the UK growing it for commercial use...

the indiest vegetable is the daikon

i see daikon in a lot of supermarkets.

so indie is supposed to signify non-mass-availability?

tell us what it means to you

fuck if i know. i'm just saying. a lot of this other stuff i don't see so much
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bell labs OTM with dandelion greens - everywhere, snobbish, cheap, lo-fi

Woman, I love your chest ooh,
Baby, I'm crazy 'bout your breasts
Woman, you think you're a champ but
Girl you ain't nothin' but a raw ramp
Baby I've got metal knees ooh.
Lady I'm beggin' of you please
Baby you think you're a champ but
Girl you ain't nothin' but a raw ramp.

bell, fiddleheads are at the usgm.

i like how all the gourmet foodie yuppie vegetables are the indie ones

damnit i'm going out of town this weekend. i bet fiddleheads are over by next week :(

55 years of them golden ramps

chard is the pavement of vegetables

brussels sprouts = the fall

cauliflower = pj harvey

carrots = flaming lips

Please somebody talk me out of downloading the Raw Ramp ringtone from the site where I got those lyrics!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Wuppertal_Eulenkopfweg_083.jpg

Skaterest veg.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/dining/20forage.html?_r=1&src=dayp

spotted the first ones at union square on saturday