While we were visiting our family in Atlanta this past Christmas, my 6- and 8-year-old nieces, were introduced to broccoli rabe (or rapini), an Italian leafy broccoli known for its bracing bitterness.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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, ...

Escarole is a member of the chicory family, a form of endive with broad green leaves that look a lot like curly lettuce. Like other chicories – radicchio and endive – those lush leaves come with a ...

This dish is inspired by a classic oil and garlic pasta. I’ve added chicory, a bitter green that is much loved in southern Italy but underused here. It’s sold with lettuces in the supermarket, often ...

From left: Sophie Cassel, Sophie Howat, Andrea Solazzo with her baby, Lucia Solazzo Dunseith, and Hilary Martin among baby chicory at the Diggers’ Mirth Collective Farm Credit: Daria Bishop For ...

While raw escarole has a springy, vegetal quality, a bit like a mild romaine, with heat it seems to mellow and ripen in flavor, growing, like Cinderella, only the sweeter for its ordeal. As plants go, ...

Escarole is a variety of endive, which is why it’s so often confused with that leafy vegetable and their cousin, chicory. Escarole has pale leaves and a slightly bitter flavor that works well when ...

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 ...

Spice-Rubbed Pork Chops With Escarole and Apple Saute. (Nathan Hostler, Special to The Oregonian/OregonLive) (Nathan Hostler, Special to The Oregonian/OregonLive) Escarole is a deceiving leafy green.