In revolutionary France, the newspaper Le Monde offered a reward for anyone who invented a method of preserving food for the hungry and impatient armies. If they were to offer a reward today for the ...

Do you remember the first time you saw the word “radicchio”? The first time you tried to say it out loud? Now, how about the first time you cooked it? We didn’t think so. Radicchio may have gone from ...

Celebrate the taste of summer this week and enjoy our Italian Chopped Salad. Crisp Romaine lettuce, chickpeas, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion and radicchio are drizzled with a simple, classic, ...

JASON SALVO adores radicchio. At Local Roots Farm in the Snoqualmie River valley, Salvo and his wife, Siri Erickson-Brown, grow five varieties. They tracked down and treasure a 30-year-old cookbook, ...

We all cherish a yummy plate of pasta. To me, it is food for the soul. Perfect at any given time, a pot of salted water on, ...

Siri Erickson-Brown first fell in love with radicchio while she and her husband were working on farms in Europe in the early 2000s. They ate a lot of the red winter vegetable while in Italy, where it ...

In the early 1980s, when radicchio was just appearing in restaurants like Chez Panisse and Fourth Street Grill in Berkeley, I had a vegetable seed company. Le Marche Seeds International sold European ...

Like most children, Lane Selman didn’t like the bitter bite of radicchio growing up. “I’m from Florida originally, and it’s not popular in Florida at all,” she says. “My mother ate a lot of radicchio, ...

Radicchio, pronounced (rah-dee-kee-oh), is a member of the chicory family, known for its red and white veined leaves and bracing, bitter flavor. Native to Italy, it is featured in many Mediterranean ...

Radicchio is a leafy vegetable with dark reddish-purple leaves and white veins. It’s sometimes called red chicory, Italian chicory, or red endive. It’s common in Italian and Mediterranean cooking.