Texas cuisine makes good use of the onion. Wild onions can be found growing along streams in most of the state. The wild variety of onion is small, seldom making a bulb larger than a grape, but they are very pungent. I've never had any success getting wild onions to grow in my garden. I guess they were just born to be wild.
Onions come in three basic varieties, red, white and yellow.
The yellow onion is the most pungent of the three, having lots of the fumes that make your nose run and your eyes water while you are working with them. The yellow onion was very popular with earlier Texans, who raised them because they would store well. Once dried, the yellow onion would keep for months in a cool dry place. The red onion has a milder flavor than the yellow, and it also keeps well. The white onion, having a mild, sweet taste, is the most popular.