The sweet potato is a lovely vegetable: don’t destroy it with a prosaic treatment.

Misshapen fruit and vegetables won a reprieve as the European Union scrapped rules banning overly curved, extra knobbly or oddly shaped produce from stores.

A traditional Hawaiian meal might be poised to enter the consciousness of mainlanders in all of its fatty, greasy deliciousness.

For economic and health reasons, a number of Americans are making the seemingly anachronistic choice to turn their basement into a root cellar.

The joy over a Brooklyn farmer’s market may prove short-lived — its location is the site of a future Walgreens drugstore.

Lacking the cult status of ripe summer tomatoes or the esoteric cachet of watermelon radishes and purslane, peppers may be one of the season’s least celebrated vegetables.

A traditional dish eaten at Rosh Hashana in Iraq is made by stuffing Swiss chard leaves with beets, onions, rice and sometimes meat.

Ultraripe vegetables, abundant herbs — summer is quite possibly the ideal time to make soup.

Lavender is so strong that it can quickly become distasteful, but it really comes into its own when combined with vegetables.

The community-supported agriculture business model is exploding in the suburbs of New York and elsewhere, allowing farmers and consumers to forge a personal relationship.