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Courtesy of CA GROWN Artichokes have been grown in California since the late 1880s, but they didn’t always have their modern-day it-girl status. Initially, most of America’s artichokes were imported from France, until World War I disrupted that supply line. California growers banded together to form the Artichoke Growers Association (now the California Artichoke Advisory Board), consolidated packing and transportation, and …