Lillian takes a deep breath to calm herself, and she smells her mother beside her, perspiration and green onion and the singed, nutty scent of buckwheat groats tossed from one side of the skillet to the other in a perfect, nonchalant brown arc.
If we apply the thought process concerning mortgages to other aspects of life, one could say that the reportage on underwater mortgages would be more suited to the Onion.