It’s fiddlehead season once again, time for the hyper-seasonal celebration of one of spring’s earliest culinary harbingers. Early harvests of the locally foraged ostrich ferns are now arriving at ...

If you explore the produce section of your local grocery store in mid-May to early June, you might encounter a strange seasonal vegetable. Intensely green, these spirals resemble the top of a violin; ...

A dish made of fiddlehead ferns, duck confit and pasta is prepared by O'Malley. Just after the snow melts, but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy ...

Elena Valeriote is a writer of stories about food, farming, culture, and travel that explore the connection between people and place. Her work has appeared in publications including Gastro Obscura, ...

I grew up in Vermont eating fiddleheads and didn't particularly care for them. I didn't appreciate the delicate flavor and rare seasonality of them or I suppose mostly, I didn't appreciate the way my ...

Just after the snow melts, but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy riverbanks in search of an early but fleeting sign of spring: the furled baby fern, or ...