They’re beautiful; bright yellow, tall and blooming in profusion in that little square of ... The “artichoke” part of their name purportedly comes from the French explorer, Samuel Champlain.

A hundred years ago artichokes were eaten by the aristocracy ... though I have seen spanish and french too. The french ones were fat and tender, the Italian spikier, smaller and with a flavour ...

But it's the artichokes à la barigoule that is seriously ... Elisa Nguyen Phung Translation of an original article published in French on lemonde.fr; the publisher may only be liable for the ...

Way back in the last century, I spent a shift in the kitchen of a snooty French restaurant for a magazine ... went out recently to buy my first can of artichoke hearts, I found myself carefully ...

most likely introduced by the artichoke-savvy French. George and Martha Washington grew globe artichokes at Mount Vernon (see Martha’s Harty Choak Pie recipe, below), and Thomas Jefferson grew ...