Seasons
🌿 Cooking Through the Seasons. Food is seasonal by nature, and so is culture. 🌎
In this section, we explore how ingredients, techniques, and traditions evolve with the calendar. From spring’s first harvests to winter’s slow braises, we highlight what’s in season, where it’s celebrated, and how chefs around the world adapt their menus to match the moment.
🥟 Whether it’s Lunar New Year dumplings, summer grilling rituals 🔥, or autumn’s mushroom foraging 🍄, this is your guide to cooking with time, place, and purpose, a celebration of the rhythm that connects kitchen, climate, and culture.
Start with our Early Spring Eating Guide and follow the Seasons around the year!
Seasonal Vegetables: Late Spring (May Through Early June)
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Discover the best late spring vegetables including artichokes, arugula, beets, broccoli rabe, chard, fava beans, fennel, new potatoes, peas, scallions, salad greens, and fresh herbs. Learn how to select, store, and cook peak spring produce.
Early Spring Eating: Asparagus, Rhubarb, Ramps, and the First Harvest of the Year (March Through April)
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Explore the best foods of early spring with this guide covering forced rhubarb, asparagus, fiddlehead ferns, ramps, morels, stinging nettles, radishes, spinach, dandelion greens, rainbow trout, soft-shell crab, and spring lamb from March through April.
Late Winter Cooking: Blood Oranges, Rhubarb, Belgian Endive, and the Turn Toward Spring (February Through Early March)
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Explore the best foods of late winter with this guide covering blood oranges, Cara Cara oranges, pomelos, forced rhubarb, Belgian endive, chicories, ramps, asparagus, wild mushrooms, lamb, and preserved fish from February through early March.
Late Autumn's Table: Cranberries, Brussels Sprouts, Duck, and the Last of the Harvest (Mid-October Through Early November)
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Discover the best foods of late autumn with this guide covering late-season apples, cranberries, kiwifruit, kumquats, Brussels sprouts, Jerusalem artichokes, rutabagas, duck, snipe, woodcock, and scallops from mid-October through early November.
Early Autumn Harvest: A Guide to the Season of Apples, Squash, and Game (Mid-September Through Early October)
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Explore the best foods of early autumn with this guide covering mid-season apples, late grapes, persimmons, pomegranates, quinces, celeriac, winter squash, venison, pheasant, rabbit, and monkfish from mid-September through early October.
Early Winter Eating: Citrus, Root Vegetables, Oysters, and the Season of Sustenance (December Through January)
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Explore the best foods of early winter with this guide covering citrus fruits, Medjool dates, kiwifruit, pears, root vegetables, winter squash, kale, leeks, Brussels sprouts, oysters, Dungeness crab, scallops, duck, and wild game from December through January.
Late Summer's Final Harvest: Making the Most of the Season's Last Gifts (Mid-August Through Early September)
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Apples, grapes, pears, salmon, and tuna: a guide to late summer's final harvest and the best ways to enjoy the season's last gifts from mid-August through early September.
Mid Summer's Peak Harvest: Navigating the Season's Greatest Abundance (Mid-July Through Mid-August)
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Tomatoes, peppers, lobster, and figs: discover the peak of summer bounty with this guide to mid-summer seasonal eating from mid-July through mid-August.
Early Summer Eating: A Guide to the Season's First Bounty (Mid-June Through Early July)
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From blueberries to halibut, explore the best foods of early summer with this comprehensive seasonal guide covering fruits, vegetables, and seafood from mid-June through early July.