In a region so focused on seasonality, winter brings with it images of root vegetables, citrus fruit and hearty crucifers. Not exactly what one would consider the makings of a crisp salad. But it's ...

LIKE MOST families, the chicory family is diverse and somewhat confusing. The only generalizations you can make about it are that most members are at their best in the cool and cold weather, it’s ...

Escarole is a variety of endive, which is why it’s so often confused with that leafy vegetable and their cousin, chicory. Escarole has pale leaves and a slightly bitter flavor that works well when ...

Are you staring at your perfect ordinary spinach-based lunch thinking "I wish I could mix it up somehow?" Great news! You can, you weirdo. Welcome to the land of dark leafy greens-specifically the ...

While raw escarole has a springy, vegetal quality, a bit like a mild romaine, with heat it seems to mellow and ripen in flavor, growing, like Cinderella, only the sweeter for its ordeal. As plants go, ...

From left: Sophie Cassel, Sophie Howat, Andrea Solazzo with her baby, Lucia Solazzo Dunseith, and Hilary Martin among baby chicory at the Diggers’ Mirth Collective Farm Credit: Daria Bishop For ...

Look at the wildly tangled leaves of curly endive, the furiously jagged edges of dandelion greens, the deep furls of escarole and right off you know there’s something about them that’s just begging to ...

Friselle with cotechino and lentils brings together some of the best things you'll find in Italian New Year's recipes. I mean ...

A crisp, leafy salad is a miraculous thing: It lends satisfying bulk to a light meal and bright balance to a heavy one. But the restaurant leaves, they are a changin’. It seems like just yesterday ...