Explore the wild ingredients used to make primitive pancakes, including leached acorn flour, fresh mulberry fruit, manzanita ...

Prickly pear extract can prevent the worst of hangovers, according to new U.S. research. An article in today's issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine says taking prickly pear extract ...

The emailed recipe uses an enchiladas sauce made from dried red chilis. But, there was one ingredient in the Collins-Frias recipe new to me: nopales, or prickly pear cactus.

Prickly pear has two types of spines, ... It takes as many as 70,000 dried insects to make a pound of dye. Cochineal dye was used by the Aztecs and Maya for textiles.

"If you prick us, do we not bleed?" — Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, III: 1. The cacti are plants that demand attention, for several obvious reasons. They are fascinating succulents with ...