Vidalia onions are celebrated with their own month in May, although modern technology has extended the availability of this onion through the Christmas holidays and beyond. They are named after the town where they are grown: Vidalia, Georgia. Their sweet flavor is due to the low amount of sulfur in the soil in which they are grown. An onion can be called a Vidalia only if it is grown in one of 20 counties designated by the Vidalia Onion Act of 1986. As the story goes, which is set during the Depression in 1931, a farmer by the name of Moses Coleman discovered the onions he had planted were not as hot or strong as he had expected. They were sweet. After a long struggle, Coleman persevered and was soon selling them for $3.50 per 50-pound bag. That was a high price in those days. Other farmers thought Coleman had found a gold mine and began to follow suit. Their farms were now producing those sweet mild onions. Marketing these special onions grew slowly, but the State of Georgia built a f...