WHETHER IN THE CABINET or the veg bin of the refrigerator, onions are in every kitchen, right?
I usually have a basket of them on my counter, ready to be chopped and sautéed and eventually stirred into whatever soup, stew or pasta dish is on my stove.
For much of my career as a chef, I thought of onions as essential, yes, but not exciting—the backup singers of the food world.
But several years ago, I had an epiphany that forever changed my thinking about the onion’s place on the plate.