Ramp season here in the Hudson Valley is an eagerly awaited event occurring for a few short weeks. This year I plucked a few ramp leaves from my foraging spot in the woods, wrapping the leaves and ...

In the 18th century, Nathan Boone and his brother, Daniel Morgan Boone, learned how to make salt by boiling water from a certain salt spring in Kentucky. According to Johnson’s “Cyclopaedia of Useful ...