ONION

ONION

Cited only once in the Bible, when the children of Israel, fed up with manna, complained that they had had to give up the delicacies of Egypt (Num. 11:5), where they had known it and eaten it.

In Egyptian monuments, the onion is frequently represented at different times in Egyptian life: harvest, sale in the market, on offering tables and in tombs.

The pagan historians Strabo and Pliny praise the Ashkelon onions.

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