I would like to use this space to tell you you should eat and cook with onions more frequently.

The layers to the history of the onion are numerous. Researchers do not know exactly when they were domesticated for agricultural purposes but it has been estimated to be about 5000 years ago. They do grow naturally however, so it is likely humans have been this savory staple far before then.

Apart from sustaining human life, the symbol of the onion and the lesson it provides prevailed. Indeed, the Egyptians worshiped the onion, picturing it on pyramid walls and banquet tables in paintings. Some pharaohs even, were covered with onions in their tombs. The onion as a metaphor for eternal life continued with a myriad of cultures, from the Romans to the Pilgrims. And comes through even today in popular culture in films like Shrek and Holes, where Sam’s donkey is purported to be 100 years old from eating onions every day.

Personally, I love onions. Its texture, its taste, its tear-wrenching performances as you prepare it.. I have come to the point where I can eat onions raw, like an apple, although I would only do this if you’re not planning on going on a business meeting, or a date, or honestly if you’re going to see anyone else that day.

Eat onions. In any form. Eat them raw, or battered, or caramelized or fried ; and eventually you’ll become an onion-layered, emotional, and with eternal life( or at least an extended one). 🙂