We experienced some false starts with our grape gathering. We’d been waiting for the fruits to become fully ripe, but by that time, they were mostly gone — eaten by all manner of wildlife. Pick the ...

Wild grapes are kind of a pain to work with — each individual fruit is more than half seed and skin, so you need to collect a lot in order to do anything with them. Picking the fruit from the stems is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oven-dried, preserved, or puréed—there are so many ways to extract the best flavor from each juicy lil orb! Serious Eats / Vicky ...

Grapes can seem pretty mundane. Most of us only ever encounter them as hulking bunches in suitcase-like plastic boxes at the grocery store. As someone who’s not particularly fond of table grapes, I ...

Muscadines are an indigenous wild grape native to the Southeast. Typically, the gold green ones are referred to as scuppernongs, and the dark purple are known as muscadines. Scuppernongs are actually ...

My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family in rural Whitefield, Maine. This happened in the 1940s. By then, ...

This hearty side dish gives the earthy flavor of wild rice a bright burst of sweetness and acidity from pan-blistered grapes. Instructions: Bring 1 quart of water to a boil in a 4-quart saucepan. Add ...

Grape season is underway, and whether you’re walking through the woods or around your neighborhood block, you’re likely to see little orbs of purple perfection across South Texas right now. Wild and ...

This hearty side dish gives the earthy flavor of wild rice a bright burst of sweetness and acidity from pan-blistered grapes. Instructions: Bring 1 quart of water to a boil in a 4-quart saucepan. Add ...