Ilene Rosen's Maple Butter Baked Seckel Pears.

Just mention this bony, overgrown herring, and any shad fanatic within 100 yards will begin dancing about, warbling Cole Porter, and quoting Joseph Mitchell or John McPhee.

Think of fiddlehead ferns, those tightly coiled, emerald-green symbols of spring, as ferns interrupted.

No fruit—or berry, if you want to get technical—demonstrates the virtue of patience more dramatically than the persimmon.

When life throws you a pithy pomelo, as they say, make candied pomelo peel.

Tiny, succulent shrimp from Maine pack a lot of delicately sweet flavor into a small package.

With citrus at its juicy peak, it’s a sun-starved cook’s obligation to find more exciting uses than morning juice for the uncommon oranges flooding the market.

Never underestimate the potential of the Concord grape.