If you've ever forgotten to cook a bulb of garlic and noticed the green stem sprouting from the cloves, then you've seen a garlic scape in its earliest stage.  If planted and left to grow, the scape will collect air and sunshine to help the garlic plant grow.  As the plant matures, the scape will…

Grilled Vegetable Kebabs:  so easy and so good for you! I live on the top floor of a brownstone building, and my kitchen gets so hot in the Summer that even turning on the stove feels like torture.  In other words, we do a lot of grilling this time of year.  Where I grew up, grilling…

I would totally walk by these if I saw them under a tree. Ramps have been the hot Spring food for the last few years, here in New York. Come April, it seems as though every food writer in the tristate area can do nothing but extol the virtues of ramps, also known as wild leeks…