A dish made of fiddlehead ferns, duck confit and pasta is prepared by O'Malley. Just after the snow melts, but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy ...

As the first signs of spring emerge, you might see one of nature's most interesting and seasonal edible delicacies, fiddleheads, in the woods or at your farmers market or specialty grocery store.

Fiddleheads, the curled, edible shoots of the ostrich fern, are a seasonal delicacy harvested in many parts of the Northern United States and Canada. Other types of ferns, like foxglove and bracken ...

If you explore the produce section of your local grocery store in mid-May to early June, you might encounter a strange seasonal vegetable. Intensely green, these spirals resemble the top of a violin; ...

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Just after the snow melts but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy riverbanks in search of the... Fiddlehead: This Fern Is For Eating Just after the snow ...