When browsing the spring onions, look for small bulbs and taut green stems.

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As for the ramps, if your farmers' market or specialty store doesn't have them, use spring onions or leeks instead.

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If you can't find them, you can use spring onions instead.

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In the chef's second Slow Food Fast contribution, seared spring onions, boiled new potatoes, a soft-boiled egg and plump, sweet peas top a pool of creamy, herbal green goddess dressing.

WSJ: Spring Vegetables With Green Goddess Dressing

It looked at vegetables such as carrots, lettuce and spring onions which were grown close to or in contact with the soil and which were sold to be consumed without any further cooking or preparation other than light washing or scraping.

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"This is still a hard place to live in, but it's everything that's left to me, " says Bush, who draws his water from a natural spring and hunts the hardwood forests for wild onions, mushrooms and herbs.

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