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the onion that went to finishing school and learned to whisper instead of shout
means A small, mild onion relative that grows in clustered bulbs and lends a delicate, slightly sweet flavor to cooking.
from From Old French eschalotte, a reshaping of escaloigne, which traces back to Latin Ascalonia caepa — the 'onion of Ascalon,' a Mediterranean port city (modern Ashkelon) once famed as a source of the bulb. So the name is, in effect, a centuries-old geographic label that stuck: the onion that's still introduced by its hometown.
- botanical alias
- officially a variety of the common onion
- french habit
- the secret backbone of classic vinaigrettes and sauces
- grows in clumps
- one bulb splits into a cluster underground
- sweeter burn
- milder, fruitier, less likely to wreck dinner
- name origin
- named after ancient port city Ascalon
for instance
french shallot — gray shallot variety from loire valley, france, protected by aoc designation
asian shallot — smaller red variety dominant in thai, vietnamese, and indonesian cooking