For many people, it's hard to imagine rhubarb without a generous amount of sugar to take the edge off its sharp taste. As early as the 19th century, English cookbooks have been baking it into desserts ...

PLEASING PERENNIAL: Kaley Laird, left, pastry chef at The Rhu, and chef John Fleer, right, owner of The Rhu and Rhubarb restaurant, use the eponymous plant’s tangy stalks to make pastries, sauces, ...

Come for the rhubarb pie – stay for the rhubarb mojitos. That’s the new approach Sumner merchants are taking to cement the city’s status as The Rhubarb Pie Capital of the World. Sumner businesses are ...

Wakefield is set to turn pink with the return of an annual festival celebrating its rhubarb roots. The versatile vegetable has been produced for more than 150 years in a nine-square-mile area of ...

During the heyday of the Silk Road, dried rhubarb root was at times more expensive than cinnamon or opium, and Marco Polo went searching in northwest China for specimens that could thrive in Europe. A ...

Plant rhubarb roots now, but the pie will have to wait. Rhubarb roots are available and ready to plant at most local nurseries. Choose a sunny location with good drainage. If your soil drains poorly, ...

Everybody who's ever listened to "A Prairie Home Companion" and a lot of Americans who haven't are familiar with rhubarb. Rhubarb was the big-leafed plant that faithfully came up each spring alongside ...

Grab the forks, folks. This spring has ushered in the reign of the rhubarb. Long known in its most natural and popular incarnation, the strawberry-rhubarb pie, the tart and crisp perennial is popping ...

It was early spring. I had recently moved to Point Reyes Station and was in the midst of preparing the vegetable garden. While removing dead and unwanted vegetation, I encountered a large clump of ...

AURORA, S.D. - Jan Sanderson says some of the same strengths that made him a big-time collegiate wrestler have helped him succeed with Sanderson Gardens - perhaps the longest-running commercial ...