If you’ve never cooked with cardoons before, a commonly used veggie in North African cuisine, this savory recipe for Cardoon Beef Tagine is a good way to start. It comes from Jennifer McLagan’s new ...

I like to eat these marinated cardoons on their own as a snack to quell hunger pangs while I’m making dinner or, if I’m making a cold cut sandwich, as the “pickles” on top that give your regular meat ...

This week on the Market Report, Josiah Citrin of Melisse shares his recipe (after the jump) for making cardoons, a thistle-like plant in the artichoke family. Peel the cardoons, remove the tough ...

Cardoon is a plant the Romans and Greeks ate as a vegetable, and today its popularity is such that you normally find them right alongside other pansy partners like flowering cabbage, kale and mustard.

When the vaguely warmer and wetter days of spring arrive, people start jonesing for the best spring produce: artichokes. But when I see an artichoke, I get triggered, remembering hours upon hours of ...

Most years, I start some onion seeds and perhaps a few artichokes indoors in February. This year I will also start some cardoon seeds at the same time. Cardoon, which is a lovely looking plant related ...

Found in the wild along the Mediterranean, from Morocco and Portugal to Libya and Croatia, a cardoon is a thistle that tastes like a bitter version of a giant artichoke with small, prickly flower ...

This year, my love of feral plants that are pointy and slightly dangerous inspired me to try my hand at growing cardoon, a lesser-known relative of the artichoke that is considered a delicacy in ...

Pale, grey-green, with sharp, spiny leaves, the cardoon – also known as the "artichoke thistle" as it is, in fact, related to the artichoke – can grow to a height of 6ft and produces large purple-blue ...