While raw escarole has a springy, vegetal quality, a bit like a mild romaine, with heat it seems to mellow and ripen in flavor, growing, like Cinderella, only the sweeter for its ordeal. As plants ...

In midwinter you’ll see escarole growing in the fields of southern France: large, lettuce-like heads with wavy leaves. Some of them will be wearing little white plastic hats, like shallow upside ...

When the weather is frigid, and the garden has hunkered down for the winter, it’s time to turn to chicories. These leafy vegetables are our cold-season friends, packed with vitamins and nutri… ...

For the salad, you will need red leaf lettuce and escarole as well as tarragon, parsley, and chives. For toppings, you'll need chopped ham, hard-boiled eggs, and chèvre.

4 thick slices of bacon, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch strips. 1 small head of escarole, coarsely chopped. 4 garlic cloves—1 minced, 3 crushed. 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper ...