What’s in season: You know its spring when you spot mounds and mounds of peas at the market: Right now, you can find loads of English and sugar snap peas. So what’s the difference? English peas, also ...

Snap peas are crunchy and sweet when harvested at the peak of their ripeness. As they grow and ripen fast, you need to be quick on your feet to pick them before they start to turn tough and lose some ...

Poets and gardeners agree that no flavor better captures spring’s sweet song than that of a perfect English pea. They may well be right, but most of us are just going to have to take their word for it ...

In many parts of the country, fresh spring peas are already in the markets. (The season starts on the West Coast and extends through mid-summer on the East Coast and Midwest.) This is cause for ...

Jim Dixon wrote about food for WW for more than 20 years, but these days most of his time is spent at his olive oil-focused specialty food business Wellspent Market. Jim’s always loved to eat, and he ...

Culinarian James Beard was an early fan of the sugar snap pea. Unlike regular garden peas, which date back to ancient times, the sugar snap is the modern invention of two Montana scientists. When ...