Beneath the spiky leaves, fresh artichokes are delicious harbingers of spring. Here’s how to cook them five ways, from steaming to grilling. Sonja Overhiser is a cookbook author and food writer ...

Artichokes are an essential spring vegetable. The thorny, rough exterior can make these thistles seem intimidating, but they ...

Cut off the top third of the artichoke. Use kitchen shears to trim off the sharp pointy tips of each leaf. Rinse the artichoke under cold water. Then rub all the sides with a cut lemon to prevent ...

The artichoke is one of the star vegetables of spring, but we don't always know how to properly prepare it to enjoy it. Today ...

Pat the thawed artichokes dry with paper towels and use kitchen shears to trim away any scratchy leaf tips.

Rinse the artichoke under cold water. Then rub all the sides with a cut lemon to prevent browning before you cook the artichokes. One of the most common ways to prepare artichokes is steaming them.

It was and one of the things that I had never seen before were artichokes in all shapes and sizes — and at varying degrees of preparation — for sale in the many stalls. There were small purple ...