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From: Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Sunday dinner
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 20:34:03 -0400
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On 6/2/2025 6:59 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2025-06-02 4:49 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
>> On 6/2/2025 10:16 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> We had a tomahawk steak. It was a little on the small side for that 
>>> cut, about 2.5 lb.  It turned out nicely, though a little underdone 
>>> for my wife's taste. We had some fiddleheads and a salad with blue 
>>> cheese dressing with it.
>>>
>> I sure do wish I could find fiddleheads!  They don't grow this far 
>> south.  Allegedly they are available frozen but I've sure never seen 
>> them in a freezer case.
> 
> They are a little more common here now than they used to be. My wife had 
> told me there is a fiddlehead farm in Port Colborne. I did an online 
> search and found that this is the only fiddlehead farm in North America. 
> Well, according to an 18 year old news article, it was the only one. 
> They used to be picked in the wild in New Brunswick. They were seldom 
> available and were expensive.  This week's batch was quite cheap... for 
> fiddleheads.
> 
Many years ago there was a poster to this ng (Kendall Stratton) who 
lived in Maine.  He picked and sent some resh fiddleheads to me in TN. 
It was a comedy of errors because it was shipped in a container with dry 
ice. I came home from work to find a note on the door with a notice 
saying I wasn't home so it had been returned to the Post Office.  I took 
the note off the door and drove to the Post Office.  I understand you 
have my package?  Oh!  They had put it back on the truck and it's back 
out for delivery.  I drove home.  It wasn't there.  Another note about a 
delivery attempt on the door. I called.  Oh, well they brought it back 
here because you weren't home.  DUH, I was just there!  Back and forth 
like that.  Finally, stay there, they are on the way.  I finally did get 
them.  Fresh fiddleheads, still cold.  They were delicious!>
> I don't recall ever seeing frozen fiddleheads. They have always been a 
> seasonal thing for us.
> 
They definitely are seasonal and regional.  But yes, I have heard of 
them being sold frozen.  They aren't something I can find.

Jill