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Your Garden: Parsnips – From humble beginnings to world domination

Shopping at a produce market a couple of years ago, the clerk who was scanning my purchases suddenly stopped, holding a bag of vegetables aloft. “What is this?” he asked, puzzled. “Parsnips,” I answer...

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