One would think that Peter Shaffer's famous play "Lettice and Lovage" would attract gardeners with its edible-centric title, but its plot about two eccentric British women has nothing to do with ...

Lovage tastes like celery but a little stronger and is a lot easier to grow than celery. Lovage is in the Umbelliferae family with its cousins dill, fennel, caraway, coriander and chervil. Its ...

The influential Danish chef has relied on lovage’s strong celery-like flavor to add character to warm salads, icy granitas, even savory donuts at his Copenhagen restaurant, Noma. (And when he shutters ...

Growing your own tomatoes can be an extremely rewarding experience, but it often comes with its own set of hurdles — namely, the creepy-crawly kind. Common pests like aphids and the dreaded tomato ...

When I told my wife I was off to find some lovage, she was supportive. Levisticum officinale, after all, is a close relative of celery, parsley and dill, three of her favorite plants to eat. Lovage is ...

- herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds ...

Had we been alive when the Romans brought their straight-roaded ways to Britain, chances are that lovage (Levisticum officinale) would have been well known to us. As well as its culinary uses, it was ...