Why you should consider charring your cucumbers
A quick note about Abra Berens: I first heard of her name four years ago when she was running a cafe called Stock,…
(Seinfeld voice) What's the deal with blistered shishito peppers?
Ingredients’ popularity can wax and wane like a moon cycle. For example, did you know pork belly starred in 87 percent…
Massaging kale isn’t B.S.
Kale is one of the earliest vegetables to arrive at farmers markets. It’s cold-weather tolerant, so gardeners can begin…
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Hear me out: KFC has the best coleslaw
Quantity and quality, generally speaking, are mutually exclusive. Mass popularity usually does not mean critically…
If I can make delicious refrigerator quick pickles, anyone can
My current food exploration involves tackling things that previously have been too intimidated to try: like pie crusts,…
No, really, you want the organic kale
Do you like kale? We do too. A kale Caesar salad is delicious, and it’s great in a Tuscan-style soup with beans and…
U.K. soccer club fires manager one day after cabbage thrown at him
The Aston Villa soccer (football) club of Birmingham, England, is having by all accounts, an exceptionally lousy…
Last Call: The bizarre prehistoric history of bananas and other produce
I was unfamiliar with Sam O’Nella Academy’s series of humorous historical videos, but was intrigued by this trending…
Listen to an orchestra of instruments made out of vegetables
You may have a fun hobby or two, but it would be hard to top the ingenuity of the members of the Long Island Vegetable…
No one’s eating enough vegetables so broccoli coffee now exists
Yes, we all should be eating five to seven servings a day of fruits and vegetables, but do you know anyone who actually…
Which summer greens should you tear, snip, or chop?
Summer approaches, and many of us start frequenting farmers’ markets or even trying out our own green thumbs in the…
The Supreme Court once ruled on whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable
Picture it: I’m just sipping my morning coffee, browsing for weird internet facts (as one does), when I stumble onto a B…
Every refrigerator needs a jar of pickled okra in it
Pickled okra is the perfect snack: Salty, briney, with a satisfying snap and a stalk of juicy, spherical seeds to burst…
Good news, salad fans: Romaine is back
Over the past several weeks, the recent E. coli outbreak related to chopped, bagged romaine lettuce spread to 32…
The best method for cooking asparagus is 2,000 years old
I used to think I didn’t like asparagus, but it turned out to be—as these aversions often are—a textural problem. Their…
How does salad get triple-washed—and should we wash it again at home?
I have one bag of spinach and one box of baby mixed greens currently in my refrigerator. They certainly look pristine,…
TIL how to salvage old, squishy carrots
Carrots that are a few days past their prime can be revived, even after they’ve gone a bit soft. Place the carrots in a…
Hey millennials, you know vegetables come in multiple colors, right?
Full disclosure: I am a millennial. I know this is shocking to faithful readers who had no idea I was merely a…
Good news for a decaying planet: Students grow vegetables in Mars-like soil
Those of us (all of us) dismayed by contuinued disturbing reports about catastrophic climate change can take some…