Week after week, a forklift pulls into a refrigerated room in a small factorylike building in Manorville, N.Y., reaches toward the ceiling and pulls down crates containing about 3,000 chicory roots ...

Chicory (Cichorium intybus) and endive (Cichorium endivia) are closely related bitter leaves that I wouldn’t be without. Think of them as the olives of the salad world. Our sweetened palates make them ...

Endive is a salad delight that is surprisingly easy to grow in the tropical home garden. Known as endibia in Spanish, endive (Cichorium endivia) is a hardy herb of the aster family, closely related to ...

RIO VISTA – Rich Collins was 18 when he tried to grow endive in a closet at his family”s home, beginning his quest to perfect the unique growing technique that produces the blanched, bullet-shaped ...

RICH COLLINS was 18 when he tried to grow endive in a closet at his familys home, beginning his quest to perfect the unique growing technique that produces the blanched, bullet-shaped vegetable.

In 1984, during the heyday of the pioneering organic market gardeners, produce doyenne Sibella Kraus, then working for Greenleaf Produce, organized the Tastings of Summer Produce, which brought ...

I think endive is one of the most confusing categories of winter greens. For many years the only endive I knew was Belgian endive, a vegetable with narrow, tightly bunched leaves that are blanched as ...

If it hadn`t been for a careless gardener years ago, the distinctive, creamy-white vegetable known as Belgian endive might not be available in our markets today. In 1843, a Belgian gardener ...

Frisee, also known as curly endive, is a great alternative leafy green to grow if you want to spice up your salad bowl. The frilly leaves are peppery and crunchy and are best known for salads, but ...