For many baby-boomers, the constant refrain of “Eat your spinach, it’s good for you!” and the olive green glop of canned vegetable that accompanied the words, led to life-long spinach avoidance. Well now is the time, if you haven’t already, to overcome your spinach phobia. One nibble of a local farmer’s sweet and vibrant fresh […]

Stop! When you get back from the market and are trying to find places for all of the beautiful produce you bought (or the ones that are fresh from your garden), don’t throw away those root tops. The tops of carrots, radishes, turnips, and beets, for example, are packed with nutrients (sometimes more than the root itself) […]

The fractacally never-ending broccoli. Romanesco has to be one of the most showy veggies that you will see at the market. This Italian broccoli is not only mesmerizing, but also easy to digest! It has been described as tasting “like cauliflower, but not as boring,” and “like broccoli, but not so broccoli” — I’m not […]

Good news. Pie grows on plants! Okay, I’m just kidding (think pizza is a vegetable?), but it is always exciting to find rhubarb at the first farmers’ markets of the season. The gorgeous green-red stalks of the delightfully sour spring vegetable are all the reason you need to make something sweet-tart, like a slushie or margarita after […]

I’ll never forget the simple grilled radicchio I had in Rome at a restaurant up the hill behind the Coliseum. It took me a while to realize that the soft, meltingly delicious vegetable soaked in olive oil was something I had indeed eaten before. And so have you, if you’ve ever had a mixed green […]