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...turnip tops, and herbs like purslane and sorrel. The new favorite is the white-flowering ramson, also called broad-leaved garlic because of its pungent odor. Its sales are as robust as its flavor. "A few years ago we had a demand of a mere kilo a week," reports Abdessalem Najar, a vegetable and fruit vendor at Cologne's central market. "Now we sell three to five kilos a day." Not bad for a weed that not long ago went largely unnoticed in the woodlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Call of the Wild | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

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