As I walked along a private road near where I live in Sebastopol, I saw a bunch of tender grape leaves on the other side of the fence. They glistened in the morning light, and I could see from their ...

Mireille Pavez reaches into the thick grape vine that grows in her garden, looking for just the right size leaves. “These are too big,” she says, tossing them on the ground. When she has found the ...

Consider the underestimated grape leaf. Each year, grape vines are cut back, and turn brown and woody, then emerge vivaciously fresh with green shoots in the late spring. These vines grow aggressively ...

Having traveled from the hills of Lebanon to the United States in the late 1800s, my grandparents, John and Rose Bahry and other Lebanese families established a mercantile community in Donaldsonville.

It was a Wednesday in mid-May of last year, around lunchtime, when I received a text from my dad. It went like this: “Hi, Sweetheart. I was out in the garden and saw some large grape leaves, and I ...

The cookbook author Diane Kochilas now sells grape leaves from Crete for dolmas and fish. By Florence Fabricant This year, Eastern Orthodox Easter comes on May 2. In a run-up to the celebration, there ...