Puccia, a sandwich bread made from a simple pizza dough, forms the base of this soup. The recipe is in “Alpine Cooking” on Page 58, but if you don’t have time to commit to baking bread, you can ...

Chickory 1 kg Garlic 2 spicchi Fresh chili pepper 1 Extra virgin olive oil 4 cucchiai Fine salt q.b. To prepare chicory in a pan, first bring a pot of plenty of water to a boil, which you will use to ...

Give me a leafy salad any day. Make it romaine, butter lettuce, watercress, red oak or a mixture of sturdy midsize leaves, and dress it simply with a good vinaigrette or with nuts, fruit and cheese.

James Churchill shares his edible plant recipes for foraged wild mint, catnip, blackberries, and chicory plant uses. Summer is moving along swiftly here in Wisconsin. Chicory, along the roadsides, is ...

Winter is chicory season. Chicories are the often-labeled bitter greens, which include radicchio, endive, puntarelle and escarole. Bunches and heads of chicory are prolific throughout the season, ...

Years ago, when I was interviewing one of those “let-the-ingredient-speak-for-itself” chefs on a book tour, she launched into a stern lecture as we were eating a salad. “You have a beautiful pile of ...

At an airport salad bar in Rome, recently, I filled a plate with leaves. It was a basic cafeteria salad bar, one that in the U.S. would probably be dominated by a large bin of iceberg lettuce laced ...

Protein may have stolen the spotlight last year — but in 2026, fiber is the wellness world’s nutritional darling. At the center of the gut-health craze is one under-the-radar ingredient that’s quietly ...