[Sca-cooks] Seasonal, Local Sweet Onions;

[grizly]

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Isn't Vidalia a type of onion that originated from Georgia?
If it is and not a origin specific the one needs to take into consideration
of the soil that the onion is grown in. Because type of soil can determine
the taste.

Lyse>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Our friend Wikipedia proffers:


A Vidalia onion is a sweet onion of certain varieties, grown in a production
area defined by law in Georgia and by the United States Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR). The varieties include the hybrid yellow granex, varieties
of granex parentage, or other similar varieties recommended by the Vidalia
Onion Committee and approved by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

The onions were first grown near Vidalia, Georgia in the early 1930s. It is
an unusually sweet variety of onion, due to the low amount of sulfur in the
soil in which the onions are grown.

Georgia's state legislature passed the "Vidalia Onion Act of 1986" which
authorized a trademark for "Vidalia Onions" and limits the production area
to Georgia or any subset as defined by the state's Commissioner of
Agriculture. The current definition includes:

the following thirteen counties: Emanuel, Candler, Treutlen, Bulloch,
Wheeler, Montgomery, Evans, Tattnall, Toombs, Telfair, Jeff Davis, Appling,
and Bacon.
portions of the following seven counties: Jenkins, Screven, Laurens, Dodge,
Pierce, Wayne, and Long.
The Vidalia onion was named Georgia's official state vegetable in 1990.


Several varieties . . . all sweeeter than usual.

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