Shallots are extensively cultivated for culinary uses, propagated by offsets.

Shallots are used in fresh cooking in addition to being pickled.

Shallots are uncommon in North America ; however, their popularity varies in parts of USA, particularly northern areas of the country.

Shallots pickled in red vinegar are common in many Indian restaurants, served along with sauces and papad on the condiments tray.

Shallots are also used to make different types of torshi ( ترشی ), a sour Iranian side dish consisting of a variety of vegetables under vinegar, eaten with main dishes in small quantities.

Shallots have the most phenols, six times the amount found in Vidalia onion, the variety with the lowest phenolic content.

Shallots also have the most antioxidant activity, followed by Western Yellow, pungent yellow ( New York Bold ), Northern Red, Mexico, Empire Sweet, Western White, Peruvian Sweet, Texas 1015, Imperial Valley Sweet, and Vidalia.

Shallots probably originated in Central or Southeast Asia, travelling from there to India and the eastern Mediterranean.

Shallots should not be planted on ground recently manured.

Shallots appear to contain more flavonoids and phenols than other members of the onion genus.

Shallots enhance the flavour of many Southeast Asian dishes, such as fried rice variants.

Shallots and ten other onion ( Allium cepa L .) varieties commonly available in the United States were evaluated: Western Yellow, Northern Red, pungent yellow ( New York Bold ), Western White, Peruvian Sweet, Empire Sweet, Mexico, Texas 1015, Imperial Valley Sweet, and Vidalia.

Really, you are most indiscreet to drive him here yourself '', he said, frowning with displeasure.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Now we must become vague, for we are approaching one of the nation's most guarded secrets.

These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.

The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.

The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.

The most primitive feelings are rudimentary value feelings, both positive and negative: a desire to appropriate this or that part of the environment into oneself ; ;

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

they are the most valuable of commodities -- and the most salable, for their demand far exceeds supply.

True, ideas are important, perhaps life's most precious treasures.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.

But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

Water, air, fruit, poetry, music, the human form -- these things are important to Persians, and they experience them with an intense and discriminating awareness.

Here in an evening Persians enjoy many of the things which are important to them: poetry, water, the moon, a beautiful face.

but they are important foundation stones for more extensive exploration of outer space for the ultimate benefit of all mankind.

When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence, a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even, to some extent, with science.

The actual moments of contact are vitally important.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

Some fiscal changes are important.

Orange and lemon are considered important as are such pastels as blue and lilac.

The important people to humanity are not the Khrushchevs and the Castros but the Schweitzers and the Dooleys, and the others like them whose names we will never know.

`` Chickens have short memories '', the doctor remarked, `` that's why they are better company than most people I know '', and he went on to break some important news to Alex.

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In this, as in so many aspects of our development assistance activities, the incentive effects of the posture we take are the most important ones.

Many of these experiences are so important that they will be cherished forever by me.

Probably the most important of all matters for review are the broad administrative policies governing the purchase, assignment, use, and management of state vehicles.

The mapping of important physical features such as slopes and types of soil and the collection of all available information pertaining to public utility service areas are being conducted as staff projects and, like the other two inventory projects, are scheduled for completion July 1, 1961.

It should be noted that there are other and equally important reasons for establishing meaningful intergovernmental reporting bases on a uniform fiscal year.

What is important here is that many of the cities and towns recognize the need for improved fiscal practices and are taking the initiative to obtain them.

Similar measurements are being initiated to resolve a large discrepancy in the heat of formation of another important combustion product, beryllium fluoride.