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A Swiss village in the West Virginia mountains

By Emily | Published: May 4, 2009

Spring is ramp festival time in West Virginia. The locals celebrate the arrival of warmer weather by eating the season’s first vegetable, a wild leek called a ramp. One of the state’s most famous ramp festivals is in central West Virginian in Helvetia, a town of about 30 settled by Swiss immigrants in [...]

Posted in West Virginia | Also tagged Andrew Zimmern, Appalachia, Bizarre Foods, food, Hutte, ramps, Swiss, travel, West Virginia | Leave a comment

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