Is Martha Stewart to Blame For the Scarcity of Ramps?
The only thing that gets those with locavore leanings frothing at the mouth more than the arrival of ramps each spring is their appearance on restaurants' menus. But who can we blame for the dwindling populations of the most elusive wild spring onion? In a piece about the growing scarcity of ramps, Smithsonian says that a recipe that appeared in Martha Stewart Living back in the nineties is a sort of patient zero for the growing problem.