An average trip to the grocery store can yield a cartful of colorful foods. Bright among the rainbow are the reds, lending hues to products such as raspberry jam, canned cherries, strawberry licorice, ...

It's the red seen in a British Red Coat, an El Greco masterpiece, an Andean textile and a contemporary designer evening gown. This particular color — long associated with power, wealth, seduction and ...

NPR's Martin Kaste with examples of Peruvian textiles colored with dye from the cochineal. The guts of an insect called the cochineal contain a traditional source of bright red dye -- a dye which has ...