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Default Expensive vegetables.

On 5/8/2013 1:20 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 08/05/2013 11:51 AM, James Silverton wrote:
>> Admittedly it was in a "gourmet" store but I saw Fava beans selling for
>> $4 a pound. The pods must weigh as much as the beans they contain so
>> that's about $8 a pound for a vegetable! I've never seen even asparagus
>> costing as much as that.

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> How are their fiddlehead prices? Those things are usually pretty pricey
> here. Luckily there is very little waste to them.


Love fiddleheads! I've heard of, but have never encountered, *frozen*
fiddleheads. I'd love to find some. (I'm not about to order frozen
food online.)

Jill