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Farming

I love ketchup

What Ever Happened to Homemade Ketchup?

By the mid-1800s, some cookbooks listed as many as 20 recipes. Today the homogenized condiment is due for a paradigm shift

In her new book, Founding Gardeners, London-based historian Andrea Wulf argues that the founders' love of gardening and farming shaped their vision of America.

Founding Fathers, Great Gardeners

In her new book, Andrea Wulf argues that the founding fathers’ love of gardening shaped their vision of America

The versatile green bean.

Five Ways to Eat Green Beans

To prove their versatility, here are five out-of-the-ordinary ideas for cooking with green beans, each from a different world culture

Bananas have been cultivated for thousands of years. But are the days of the familiar Cavendish numbered?

Taming the Wild Banana

When and where did people learn to cultivate one of our favorite snacks?

The author's vegetable garden

Sweet Garden Success

Meal planning has become like triage; we eat whatever is most urgently ripe

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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