As avid plant and food lovers, little brings us more joy and hope after a long, frigid winter than seeing spring's first shoots pop up out of the soil. Along with asparagus, hearty leafy greens, peas, ...

If I haven't mentioned it in this column before, my backyard is a jungle. When I moved into my house in the dead of winter a few years ago, the yard looked serene, blanketed in snow. Then spring came, ...

With their serpentine coils and tangled mass, garlic scapes suggest the stuff of myth, the substance of Medusa’s coiffure had she been vegan. Actually, they’re deliciously benign, sweet, and mild with ...

Green garlic is a mild-tasting sibling of the much-known and -loved garlic. But it’s such an underappreciated culinary gem. Many people are unsure what to do with it. It has a bright green stalk and a ...

Stay-Put Cooking is a frequent kitchen dispatch while you're stuck at home social distancing. Check out the archive for more tips and tricks. It’s June. Do you know where the scapes are? Also known as ...

For garlic lovers, this time of year is like an early holiday season. As we speak, delicious edible flower stalks called scapes are curling their ways from the tops of hardneck garlic plants. When ...

Garlic scapes – also called garlic shoots – are the long, thin, sturdy stems that grow out of the garlic bulb. Many vendors trim off the elongated flower bud at the tip of the scape, but if they are ...

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