Four contestants aged 9 to 12 who have demonstrated their knowledge of food and skill in the kitchen are given “mystery baskets” of ingredients they must include in dishes they create on the spot.
Native peoples celebrated the arrival of ramps with festivals. Some ramp festivals continue in Appalachia to this day. For early Americans, their eager ramp consumption relieved the sores and tiredness of months of vitamin C-depleted winter.
It has been tedious sorting through garden vegetables that were either stuffed into the refrigerator or placed in a cold room when brought in from the precipitous advent of frigid temperatures and arctic winds three weeks ago.
