If you're growing vegetables in your backyard, perhaps it's time to up your game and include something spicy in your harvest from the allium clan of edible bulbs and leaves. All of the following ...

Q. I was given two plants, each in a pot 4 1/2 inches deep and 6 inches in diameter. One plant is Allium tuberosum, or garlic chives. The other is Tulbaghia violacea, or society garlic. Are these ...

Is it a weed or a garden plant? Garlic chives are among those plants — paulownia tree, Jerusalem artichoke, mint and anise hyssop are others — that can parade under either guise. Garlic chives come ...

Is it a weed or a garden plant? Garlic chives are among those plants that can parade under either guise. Garlic chives come from the onion family. Some of its kin — Star of Persia, giant onion and ...

Kristin Nguyen has always been passionate about cooking — just ask her family. “Every family party, I cooked, and I never did the same dishes twice,” Nguyen said. “I’d call people up, say, ‘Come over ...

What would we do without the genus Allium? I am convinced that our kitchens and dinner tables (and literature) would be much duller in its absence. Allium is what we call a “genus”…which is to say, a ...

Garlic chives, similar to plain chives, add their distinctive pungent flavor to many Chinese and Korean dishes. The buds can be sautéed like a vegetable, and the flat leaves can be used like an herb, ...

Here’s how to choose between these spring alliums to bring fresh, oniony flavor to your cooking. Nils Bernstein is a food, drink, and travel editor and writer based in Mexico City. He is the food ...