Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Make the most of this summer vegetable while its at its best. "Mercy me, these were delicious. I cut a few okra up, splashed a ...

With its hibiscus-like flower, okra is one of the prettiest, as well as most useful, hot-weather crops. For some of us, it’s also one of the most beloved. Recently, my friend Joel Sellers, of Eunice, ...

Okra thrives in the heat - both in the garden and in the kitchen. As the merciless summer sun beats down, okra plants produce pod after pod, giving home cooks pounds of produce to prepare or preserve.

I grew up with African food, but in a Lebanese way. Let’s take my mum’s okra stew — the African version is filled with fried fish, cow foot, sheep tail, oxtail and beef all in one stew — while ...

Bibi Hutchings, a lifelong Southerner, lives along a quiet coastal Alabama bay with her cat, Zulu, and husband, Tom. She writes about the magical way food evokes memories, instantly bringing you back ...

Okra, also called Abelmoschus esculentus L. or lady’s finger, is a vegetable native to Africa. Today, it grows throughout many tropical and subtropical regions (1). Okra seedpods are a mucilaginous ...