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it's giving life

“Are these red onions?”

The other day at the food bank, I was helping a lady load her groceries into her car, and she asked me to also help her identify the purplish papery vegetables trying to roll loose from their bag. 

It was hard to tell. These were D-cup shallots, if they were shallots, so you’d be forgiven to think they were onions. But the way they grow in cloves or clusters is a giveaway. If

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