The produce aisle is overflowing with look-alikes: zucchini and cucumbers, sweet potatoes and yams, plantains and bananas, onions and shallots. The flavor—and sometimes internal texture and ...

If youve ever been scouring the onion buckets at the supermarket only to find small purple oblong-looking onions, chances are those were shallots. And what is a shallot, exactly? Well break down ...