Nicholas has a strategy for easing his kids into the spicy stuff. Or not.

Jenny says: make time for these green beans.

Cabbage gets frisky.

The simplest lentil salad that just might ruin you for other recipes.

Jenny's found a new baked good to show gratitude with. 

We might as well just say it: kohlrabi is a little weird. The name literally means "cabbage turnip" in German (makes sense, right?), and they're as common as cabbages and turnips themselves in Eastern Europe, where they've been around for centuries. Stateside, though, they're a little more unusual -- "you'd think it had just landed on earth," Elizabeth Scneider says in Uncommon Fruits & Vegetables: A Commonsense Guide -- so farmers' markets and CSA boxes are your best bet for the hardy, prolific stems.