The Richness of Shallots

But Not from Seed

IF YOU THINK LIKE a gardener of long, long ago, so far back that vegetables weren’t that different from wild plants, the idea of an onion, our basic familiar Allium cepa, is that it’s a single mass around a center point — one fairly large, practical bulb. Good for a cook. Rarely does a common onion ever divide in two, and it keeps well. From the hundred…