John and Megan set the table with their co-host and friend, Shannon Larson, and their guest, Lane Selman, to discuss Joy of Cooking recipes and stories, kitchen victories and miseries, and, most importantly, what they're all cooking and eating.

The ultimate dive into the source of our food.

Taste in-development, new and ancient varieties of Hawai‘i crops at the matchmaking event for breeders, farmers, chefs and eaters.

Reassessing our relationship with the aggressively bitter, emphatically purple chicory.

Lane Selman of the Culinary Breeding Network will share about her work and the Radicchio Expedition 2020.

With these stunning heirloom radicchios, it’s easy not being green.

Giàz da Foradori. La festa degli ortaggi invernali riunisce i giovani orticoltori d'Italia

Seed Series: Irresistibly tasty varieties to try, with Lane Selman of Culinary Breeding Network

The local nonprofit joined forces with some of the city’s top chef talent to give us a taste of the future.

Radicchio is having a moment in the U.S.

“All of these people,” she recalls, “the chefs and the farmers and the plant breeders, needed to be talking to each other.”

How to use radicchio in winter dishes (and bring color into a time when it’s kind of dreary outside)

These are the seeds of a revolution.

Even in the Veneto, the epicenter of radicchio, the crop is always changing.

Lane Selman and Patrick Merscher talk about the Northern Organic Vegetable Improvement Collaborative, the Culinary Breeding Network, and their work helping organic growers select the best winter squash varieties.

“If this woman has a super-power, it's bringing the right people to the table in the spirit of collaboration to solve specific problems in small-scale ag.”

This cultivated form of chicory is having a moment. Here’s what you need to know before you plant it.