Vernal Equinox Foods: The Jelly Bean Diet, Muskrat, and Beer Are on This Menu

Family Tree Food Stories · Mar 20, 2025 · 30m · transcript

Spring Food Traditions You'll Want to Eat

In this next episode of Family Tree, Food & Stories co-hosts Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely explore rather different and interesting springtime traditions, sharing some foods that you might never have heard about before.

Have you ever wondered if jelly beans could be part of a balanced diet?

Or are you curious about the story behind white asparagus that led to a carpool mishap?

And what on earth do muskrats, alligators, and beer have to do with Lent?

Nancy and Sylvia delve into the world of spring foods, from dandelion wine and rhubarb pie to why how…