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 ...

Edited version of a story first published June 26, 2007: A few weeks before harvest, growers of hardneck garlic find their crop sporting loopy green pig's tails faintly bulging with seed-like bulbils.

Jar of pesto next to bowls of cheesy pesto pasta - Westend61/Getty Images The word pesto is a past-tense form of the Italian word pestare, which means to crush. This definition is actually more ...

THE TASTE of spring is green. Well, if not exactly green, certainly greenish. Perhaps I have a touch of synesthesia, the peculiar condition characterized by an involuntary link between the senses.

For several years when my garden lay fallow, I let my garlic go. As a result it slowly proliferated, invading the edges of the veggie beds. Over the past couple of years, I’ve prioritized regaining ...

Garlic scapes, those hardy green stems that grow in the spring from the tops of hardneck garlic bulbs, make a unique and wonderful pesto. In fact, garlic scape pesto gives us the best of all culinary ...

We planted a lot of garlic last fall. I’m not sure what got into me, but we ended up devoting a big section of our garden to a garlic patch that will produce over 100 bulbs. Garlic is a great addition ...