Appalachia

Tanuki

(15,314 posts) Fri Apr 25, 2014, 01:03 PM Apr 2014

Ramp Festival, Richwood, WV

Sorry for the short notice. It's tomorrow, but there's always next year!
http://www.richwooders.com/ramp/ramps.htm
You can also find lots of recipes featuring the (extremely) pungent onion/garlic relative, that grows wild in high elevations of Appalachia, at the link. Even Martha Stewart is cooking with ramps!

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Ramp Festival, Richwood, WV (Original Post) Tanuki Apr 2014 OP

There used to be a "weakly" paper in West Virginia . . . Staph Apr 2014 #1

I have to say I tried ramps once theHandpuppet Apr 2014 #2

Staph

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1. There used to be a "weakly" paper in West Virginia . . .

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Fri Apr 25, 2014, 03:00 PM

Apr 2014

called the West Virginia Hillbilly, published by a real character named Jim Comstock, a native of Richwood. To promote the ramp festival one year, he published the local newspaper with ramp juice included in the printer's ink. To quote Goldenseal Magazine:

According to Comstock, "We got a reprimand from the Postmaster General ... And we are probably the only paper in the United States that's under oath to the federal government not to smell bad".

theHandpuppet

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2. I have to say I tried ramps once

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Sat Apr 26, 2014, 05:20 PM

Apr 2014

There won't be a second time. I was really surprised I didn't like them but perhaps it was the cook and not the ramps.

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