Richie decided to make Jacque Pepin's Beef Stew. The list of ingredients contained "pearl onions." He said, "Are they the ones in the glass bottle?"
"No! No!" I said, "Those are pickled for cocktails! But I saw them at the supermarket the other day so they're in season."
He only used half of the bag and the next day I looked at the bag tag and discovered that he could have perhaps cleaned them more easily if, as the tag instructs, he'd boiled them "as is" for three minutes, then run cold water over them, cut off the root end and pinched from the top - "until the onion slips out." Next time; he's still got half a bag.
Still studying the tag, I began to wonder who "Frieda" was and, seeing that there is a Website - friedas.com - I went to visit.
Frieda is 88 year old Frieda Rapoprt Caplan, who founded the company in 1962 from the LA Wholesale Produce Market. Today she is the founder, her two daughters and now granddaughter run it from a location in Orange County.
Frieda went in for the exotic right from the start and if you like such as kiwifruit, elephant garlic, spaghetti squash, purple potatoes or Habanero chilies, say a polite "Thank you," to Frieda.
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