Ramps grow wild

Gathering:

Prompt: What was your favorite food growing up?

Don Mitchell It grows wild, and it still, they have ramp festivals. We actually have one at our campground every year. It’s somebody else sponsors it. I don’t, but they’re real strong. It’s like between a garlic and an onion. You can eat them raw or sauté them, fry them, mix them in with your fried potatoes, put some fatback and grease on them-

Shyanne Bellamy Ooo that sounds good.

Don Mitchell -corn bread. We had a lot of this mountain. Before refrigeration and freezers, a lot of things were pickled and dried, or salt-cured, or smoke-cured, and I can still remember that. And I do some of that old time stuff now. 

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