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 ...

Chicory root makes for an excellent coffee substitute. Roasted and ground chicory root has a rich, earthy flavor that ...

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, ...

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 ...

Wild chicory is one of the most valuable and often overlooked ingredients that nature offers us. Found wild in fields, along roadsides and in meadows, this plant can add a unique touch to your dishes, ...