{"id":494,"date":"2008-05-29T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T23:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2008-05-29T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T23:08:52","slug":"vidalia-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Vidalia onions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/wvidalia-may29.JPG' title='wvidalia-may29.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/wvidalia-may29.JPG' alt='wvidalia-may29.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The real thing<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I would continue to testify that, awesome though California&#8217;s produce is, there are three things grown in the Southeast that California can&#8217;t duplicate: Vidalia onions (from Georgia, of course), proper summer tomatoes, and mountain cabbage.<\/p>\n<p>Vidalia onions are showing up in all the stores here. The large ones can be expensive. The medium-size onions are very reasonably priced. I don&#8217;t know why it took me so long to figure it out, but I now understand the source of the soggy onions we had during the winter, both in California and here in the Southeast. The onions are imported from Central America and Peru. I&#8217;m guessing that they must be transported on ships with no ventilation, so the outers layers have already started to rot by the time they get here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have plenty more on tomatoes this summer. I hope to visit a cabbage patch in Carroll County, Virginia, before too much longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real thing I would continue to testify that, awesome though California&#8217;s produce is, there are three things grown in the Southeast that California can&#8217;t duplicate: Vidalia onions (from Georgia, of course), proper summer tomatoes, and mountain cabbage. Vidalia onions are showing up in all the stores here. The large ones can be expensive. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vidalia onions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}