At last month's Green City Market Chef's BBQ, Friend of the Food Chain and allium enthusiast Alan Lake and I were sitting around talking garlic scapes, the subject being unavoidable as abundant piles of them were being used as table centerpieces. Scapes are the pliant, coiling green flower stalks typically cut off from the subterranean garlic bulb; usually they're some of the first things to show up at spring farmers' markets.…
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