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Shallot refers to two different Allium species of plant. The French grey shallot or griselle, considered to be the ‘true shallot’ by many, is Allium oschaninii, a species which grows wild from Central to Southwest Asia. The word ‘sh allot’ derives from the name of the city of Ashkelon (Latin ‘Ascalon’) in ancient Canaan, in Italian its name is ‘scalogno.’ Unlike onions, where each plant normally forms a single bulb, shallots form clusters of offsets, rather in the manner of gar (...)