You Only Need to Make One Ramp Meal This Spring

Maya Kosoff
5 min readApr 26, 2022

I will be honest! I did not know what ramps were until a few years ago when I saw them at the Prospect Park farmers market, nor did I understand them to be the name of a food product until then. Here is a definition of ramps from a 2015 SEO article about them, which doesn’t really get into why people freak out about ramps, but that’s fine, we’ll get there:

A good way to define ramps might be to describe the negative space, i.e. what ramps aren’t. Ramps are not leeks, nor are they scallions, nor are they exactly shallots. Ramps (which are sometimes…

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Maya Kosoff

i’m a freelance writer and editor. you can also read me in places like the new york times and vanity fair.