Isn't that really close to Gilroy, the garlic capital of the world?
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Fishwri wrote:
> Castroville is indeed "The Artichoke Capital of the World."
> Castroville is a small town just north of Monterey in central California.
> Artichokes grow well in this cool,
> summer-dry (= Mediterranean) climate.
>
> A very obscure bit of trivia--Marilyn Monroe was once
> (reportedly) Castroville's Artichoke Queen.
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> Eileen Campbell
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