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Rhubarb is delicious.

Five Ways to Eat Rhubarb

Summer and rhubarb go hand in hand. So do strawberries and rhubarb—in pie. But what else can you cook up with the vegetable?

Delicious looking watermelons

Five Ways to Eat Watermelon

The best way to eat watermelon? By the wedge, bare feet dangling into a pool or lake. But here are five other pretty good ideas

Apple, pumpkin and elderberry wine from Will o' Wisp Wines

Beyond Grapes: It’s Wine, But Not From the Vine

Baked cardoons

Inviting Writing: Aunt Molly’s Mysterious Greens

Today’s memory about cardoons comes from Susie Petitti Tilton, who works at Williams-Sonoma and has a small business baking decorated sugar cookies

Artichokes

Five Ways to Eat Artichokes

Butter or mayonnaise are simple, traditional and perfectly acceptable accompaniments, but why stop there? Here are five other ideas

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Eau d’Asparagus (or What’s Behind That Asparagus Effect?)

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It’s a Tomato! The Miracle of Life, Plant Edition

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Inviting Writing: Eating With Your Fingers

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Kae Sa Luk: The Original Edible Arrangements

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What Is the “Right to Farm” and Who Has It?

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The Funniest Fruit: A Brief History of Banana Humor

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Diary of a Neurotic New Gardener: The Best-Laid Plants

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Five Ways to Eat Lemons

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How Can Seedless Fruit be Fruitful and Multiply?

Chugging Maple Sap

Instead of pouring maplsyrup on pancakes, South Koreans are drinking the straight sap

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Sprouting Seeds and Beans: The Gardener’s Gateway Drug

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Farmer/Writer Kristin Kimball, Author of The Dirty Life

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Q&A: Foodscape Artist Carl Warner

I have always been a fast eater, and even as a kid I was not picky

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Inviting Writing: Tomato Surprise

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Inviting Writing: Romancing Guava Paste

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