Humor Texas Food Festivals Contact Us Texans Love Their Onions by Lucas Everidge Onions are one of our most ancient vegetables for cooking. People also use them for their medicinal qualities. Onions are available in many styles, and, when properly used, add a perfect touch to your dish.
Most grocery stores offer white and yellow onions.
Texans cook with lots of yellow onions, which are sometimes called sweet onions because of their sweeter flavor. Other vegetables in the onion family include garlic, and leeks. Garlic is extremely potent and flavorful. Leeks consist of long green stalks with white bulbs on one end. Leeks have a milder flavor then onions, and are wonderful in soups.