MrBarossa wrote:Over the past two years I've had no difficulty finding them at various Whole Foods around the city, once they're in season.
I'm certain I've bought them at the Whole Foods on Dearborn and also at the one on Ashland.
toria wrote:I'm assuming ramps are rampion. When I was a child I had Shirley Temple's storybook. In it, adapted from the Brothers Grimm was the story of Rapunzel.......who was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion - rapunzel, and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, and had the greatest desire to eat some. The desire for rampion increased every day, and as she knew that she could not get any of it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable. Her husband was alarmed, and asked, what ails you, dear wife. She replied, if I can't eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die.......well you know the rest.
The book was illustrated with the most enchanting picture of this witch that imprisioned Rapunzel after she ate the rampion and was caught. At that point, and for many years later I had no idea what Rampion was. Better get the ramps in a store lest you be locked in a tower by a witch!!!
Jazzfood wrote:Just spoke w/Green Grocer. They said they didn't get them in because their farmer said they were starting to get bitter. May be end of the season.
Louisa Chu wrote:Ramps just starting to sprout in the Chicago area.
Mhays wrote:Aren't these ramps?
Mhays wrote: Have I mentioned that I love H-Mart?
David Hammond wrote:People walk by, see this bird, and stare. It’s an oddity. It’s white and beautiful. I walk so close to it, I could grab it by the neck (which has occurred to me, as it’s eating my grass seed). It has no survival skills. I think it’s a pet that escaped. What kind of bird is this?
Ursiform wrote:It looks as if you have an all white mourning dove there. They aren't common, but they do occur from time to time.
David Hammond wrote:Ursiform wrote:It looks as if you have an all white mourning dove there. They aren't common, but they do occur from time to time.
This big white bird does bear some resemblance to mourning doves, and we do have a lot of the more common iridescent grey-burgundy mourning doves, so could be. But this is one large bird, and I have never seen it with any other birds. The wing structure is similar...but have you ever seen a mourning dove with yellow eyes?
Ursiform wrote:OK, back to our regularly scheduled programming...
Louisa Chu wrote:Dove season opens soon. Get your free permit online mid-May.
http://dnr.state.il.us/admin/waterfowl.htm