When chef Mariela Alvarez developed this salad for Public Records in Brooklyn, she flavored her creamy vegan Caesar dressing with mellow chickpea miso, sweet-tart lemon juice, and maple syrup. Here, ...

Which season do you think is the best for great salads? It’s hard to beat summer, isn’t it, with lots of tender greens and vine-ripened tomatoes? But let’s not forget December, when winter has clamped ...

This subtle relative of bitter chicories may masquerade among the lettuces, but it's not just for salads. Sturdy escarole stands up to a saute,... As plants go, the chicories are a confusing family.

It takes a bitter green to tackle a cold day. Bitter winter chicories are a salad’s response to the season. Chicories are leafy “greens” that include the likes of radicchio and Treviso, endive and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These leafy plants are chicories, bitter greens that descended from wild chicory, a weedy plant in the aster family that bears a ...

With summer's sweet corn, peas and peppers a long-faded memory, nature has moved into her bitter phase. Radicchio, escarole, broccoli rabe, Tuscan kale, frisee -- stars of the local winter harvest -- ...

Make the lumpia filling: In a large bowl, combine pork, 2 teaspoons sugar, soy sauce, salt, pepper, carrots, celery, garlic and onions. Mix well. Working with one wrapper at a time, scoop about 2¼ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We were on assignment on the Italian island of Chioggia at the southern end of the Venetian Lagoon. It was early spring—cool, wet, ...