Radicchio has an extended growing season that helps farmers combat something known as the “hunger gap” — that time between late November and early March when there aren’t a lot of options ...

Proper growing practices also mellow out the notorious bitterness of the radicchio plant, making it perfectly palatable. You might have heard that radicchio is bitter, which may have put you off ...

Narrator] But for a growing number of Northwest farmers, chefs, and food lovers, there's a radicchio revolution afoot. Any revolution starts small. - It's still kind of a fringe crop. It's a small ...

Marchini Farms, who pioneered commercial radicchio growing in the U.S. in 1989, and of Italians Lucio Gomiero and Carlo Boscolo who teamed with Salinas Valley growers to produce radicchio in the ...

With its purple and white stems, the Tardivo variety of radicchio looks like it belongs in a coral reef. "It looks almost ...

Then round heads of reddish purple streaked with white, the Chioggia variety of radicchio arrived to dress up our salads. At first they arrived on airplanes from Italy for high-end Northern Italian ...

Marchini Farms, who pioneered commercial radicchio growing in the U.S. in 1989, and of Italians Lucio Gomiero and Carlo Boscolo who teamed with Salinas Valley growers to produce radicchio in the ...