In article <[log in to unmask]>, Robert Aston
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> About 45 minutes by car, I should think.
>
> Robyn
>
> At 09:29 6/4/96 -0400, you wrote:
> >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.
> >>
> >> Eileen Campbell
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
I don't think think this trivia is true.  MM (not her real name) was from
the L.A. area.
They elect a local women Artichoke Queen.

Robert

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