A staple of the summer garden, peas are among the easy-to-grow vegetables that'll thrive in shady areas. Lathyrus oleraceus (formerly Pisum sativum) is the scientific name covering several pea ...

Peas have a special place in French culture and cuisine. One of the earliest cultivated food crops, they achieved a special status at Versailles in Louis XIV’s court, where peas were considered ...

English peas, also called garden peas or shelling peas, are the variety you might think of when you imagine traditional peas — the type that is sold frozen and canned. They are round green spheres ...

Sugar snap peas hold true to their name; they are both sweet and crunchy. Sugar snap peas are members of the legume family. While all beans, including peas, grow in pods, sugar snap peas do not ...

If you don't grow English peas in a garden, your best chance of finding good ones is at a farm stand or local farmers market, where you can ask the farmer directly when they were picked. It is ...

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 ...

One glance at this photo of freshly picked rhubarb and sugar snap peas gives you a good understanding of the old saying that a picture’s worth a thousand words. Our neighbors down the road, Bert and ...

This week's look at what's new, bountiful or mysterious in the produce aisles. "Sugar Snap Peas." What a fitting name for something that's so sweet and so audibly snappy (it crunches when snapped in ...

Peas have a special place in French culture and cuisine. One of the earliest cultivated food crops, they achieved a special status at Versailles in Louis XIV’s court, where peas were considered ...