In our 305-minute pasta recipe, we toss spaghetti and garlicky, spicy jumbo shrimp in a bright herby pesto and top the whole ...

GENOA — You know pesto is popular in the United States when you can order a chicken sandwich at McDonald’s and it arrives spread with the basil paste. Well, it happens in Italy too, where I ate pesto ...

Knowing how to grow fresh basil is paramount in the culinary world (or really anyone with functional taste buds)—the dried ...

Each year, tracks from musical artists of all types vie for the coveted “song of the summer” title. If there were an herb of the summer, that crown would always be snugly rested atop basil’s head.

Basil comes from the Greek word basileus, meaning “king” since it is believed to have grown where St. Constantine and Helen founded the Holy Cross. Grown seasonally with roma tomatoes during the ...

Sweet Genovese is great for pesto, purple basil is sweet, Thai basil is intense, British basil is hardy … This is a good month to grow your own It wasn’t the best spring for growing edible plants – at ...