When the vaguely warmer and wetter days of spring arrive, people start jonesing for the best spring produce: artichokes. But when I see an artichoke, I get triggered, remembering hours upon hours of ...

To prepare the cardoon parmigiana, start by cooking the tomato sauce with meat. So clean and finely chop celery, carrot, and onion with a knife, and sauté all in a pot where you have poured some extra ...

Found in the wild along the Mediterranean, from Morocco and Portugal to Libya and Croatia, a cardoon is a thistle that tastes like a bitter version of a giant artichoke with small, prickly flower ...

Beloved by florists and chefs alike, cardoons are worth planting for aesthetics alone, but are as easy on the palate as on the eye Pre-lockdown, when dining concerns were of the garden variety and not ...