With all the hoopla over foraging, you’d think it was a new thing. But Pascal Baudar has been scouring the Southland for wild plants for years. His found ingredients have appeared on the menus of ...

While ripping out yellow blooms blanketing hillsides in Los Angeles, Max Kingery has been questioned about his fervor for killing flowers. But the clothing designer who used the plants to dye his ...

"What do you mean you can make mustard at home?" It was all I could do to say, "Well no shit, Sherlock! How did you think it was made? By mustard elves under a tree?" Thankfully, I am the age I am; a ...

There's a super bloom impostor out there, masquerading as a colorful wildflower as it blankets some of Southern California's scenic hillsides. From a distance, it looks like a vibrant yellow flower -- ...

Lately, I’ve been on a homemade mustard kick. Think mustard, and your thoughts might veer first toward the bright yellow stuff in a squeeze bottle. Or maybe you prefer something a little less mild, as ...

Black mustard flowers may look pretty, but for park officials, the plant is public enemy No. 1. Courtesy of National Park Service Southern California residents have been treated to a rare explosion of ...

Thanks to Southern California’s wet winter, the Santa Monica Mountains are alive with luminous purple phacelia and bright blue lupine flowers. But amid the joyful eruption of native wildflowers, an ...

With such limited space in my New York City apartment, I have a couple of rules when it comes to the ingredients in my kitchen — no single-use items, and certainly no duplicates of the same ingredient ...

One of the delights of Orange County’s wild hills are the sudden bursts of yellow mustard flowers that, seemingly overnight, erupt into bloom after rains in late winter and early spring. Rains at the ...