Onion — imagined ingredient study · OpenAI image generation · Herbologium art direction · AI-generated decorative artwork. Original AI-generated ingredient illustration, made for Herbologium with Taj Mahal quartzite, flax linen and soft natural-light styling. Not a photograph, botanical identification guide, or documentation of a historical custom. The domain mark identifies the collection; no human photographer is claimed. No blanket reuse license is stated. Source: https://herbologium.com/botanical-illustrations.json
Meet the plant
Allium cepa is the botanical name for the common onion. Color, size, and culinary variety can differ; a recipe becomes easier to reproduce when it describes quantity and preparation.
At the kitchen table
A chopped onion softened in oil forms the beginning of both soups in this collection. A raw onion in a salad has a different texture and intensity. Neither preparation is captured by the plant name alone.
A thread to follow
Keep those small instructions when transcribing a handwritten recipe. Thinly sliced, finely chopped, and cooked until soft each tell the next cook something useful.
KEEP THE FOOTNOTES
Sources & further reading
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · n.d.
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BRING IT TO THE TABLE
Cook with onion.
All 26 connected recipes →An ingredient across tables
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These places connect through recipes or documented accounts using this plant. They do not describe its native range or place of domestication.
