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ram·son

 (răm′zən, -sən)
n. often ramsons
A Eurasian plant (Allium ursinum) having edible leaves and bulbs with a pungent garliclike flavor. Also called wild garlic.

[Middle English ramsyn, from Old English hramsan, pl. of hramsa.]
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We're foraging for ingredients to cook dinner over a fire in the forest of Ormanas, Skane County, searching for the jagged leaves of ground elder, the freshest-looking dandelions, bright flowers of yellow archangels, liquorice-heavy chervil and wonderfully garlicky ramson, amongst many other delectable herbs I would ordinarily have trampled over.
The yellow archangel and beech leaves are thrown into a frittata; a celeriac and onion soup is whipped up with nettles and dandelion bulbs; perch is fried in butter and ramson stalks over an open fire (the woodsmoke really adds flavour).
WINE CRAFT IS We're foraging for ingredients to cook dinner over a fire in the forest of Ormanas, Skane County, searching for the jagged leaves of ground elder, the freshest-looking dandelions, bright flowers of yellow archangels, liquoriceheavy chervil and wonderfully garlicky ramson, amongst many other herbs I would ordinarily have trampled over.
And that's because former Lions battering ram Roberts, along with his partner Nicole Ramson and neighbour Sharron Jefferson, have started up a luxury deckchair hire business.
Mohammed Amin, 24, of Ramson Road, Foleshill, admitted driving while disqualified, driving without due care and attention, failing to stop a vehicle when ordered to do so by a police officer, driving without insurance and possession of cannabis.
There has been forcible eviction since March 2018 from the troubled 2,300-acre Sir Ramson Farm.
Its exhibition presents original relics and facsimiles of sources on the life and work of Beethoven who, according to oral tradition, visited the manor house and composed his Moonlight Sonata there.Popularity of wild garlic or ramson has increased in Slovakia over the last few years.
Ramson Gomez, 23, and two youths aged 16 and 15 years old, were observed fleeing from the vehicle of Police Officer 3 Rodrigo Salviejo, 40, which was parked in front of the Club House Disco Bar at the Greenview Lodge compound, said Chief Inspector Rolando Gatan, chief of the Santiago police office's Station 1.
The administrator said President Kenyatta donated 2,204 acres to settle the more than 1,000 squatters living in the Sir Ramson farm and that it should not be used to create conflict.Deputy President William Ruto issued titles to some 824 squatters when he visited last year.
On March 26, 2011, the NIA filed a chargesheet against Shimray, TR Calvin, Hangshi Ramson Tangkhul and Naru.