Lovage tastes like celery but a little stronger and is a lot easier to grow than celery. Lovage is in the Umbelliferae family with its cousins dill, fennel, caraway, coriander and chervil. Its ...

Species of the carrot family (formerly named Umbelliferae, now Apiaceae) are still called umbellifers informally, referring to the structure of the flat-topped inflorescence, called an umbel. The ...

One would think that Peter Shaffer's famous play "Lettice and Lovage" would attract gardeners with its edible-centric title, but its plot about two eccentric British women has nothing to do with ...

OPB’s “Superabundant” explores the stories behind the foods of the Pacific Northwest with videos, articles and this weekly newsletter. To keep you sated between episodes, we’ve brought on food writer ...

I found a small jar of dried lovage root hiding behind the lungwort in what appeared to be the Harry Potter section of Butterfly Herbs. It had a smoky, musky flavor that was not what I was looking for ...

Description: The hardy perennial flowering plant lovage has a thick, fleshy, grayish-brown, carrot-shaped root from which erect hollow stalks grow 3 to 5 feet in height. The shiny, dark-green leaves ...

Lovage is one of the largest herbs in your garden, yet you may not even realize it's there. A hardy perennial that easily grows to over six feet tall each summer, lovage resembles a pale, flat-leaf ...

SO MANY FOOD firsts have come to me via other people's gardens. Visiting friends one summer in Nova Scotia, I noticed an unruly and rampantly oversize (more than 6 feet high!) celery look-alike ...

A study involving nearly 3,500 women in several countries suggests that Chinese herbs might be more effective in relieving menstrual cramps than drugs, acupuncture or heat compression. Australia-based ...

Shakespeare must have thought highly of pignuts, as Caliban offers them to Stephano and Trinculo in a bid to secure their loyalty in The Tempest. Like truffles, pignuts are a favourite food of wild ...