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 ...

Leftovers are OK, like having to share a bed with your sister because that’s better than sleeping on the floor. Even some of the best dishes register a few levels below their high mark on the flavor ...

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.

Here's one of my unpopular food opinions: I like steamed whole okra. If the pods are less than 2 inches long and fresh from the garden, they are a tender bite of unique flavor when salted and steamed.

Botanists believe okra originated in modern-day Ethiopia. Cultivation spread quickly to North and West Africa, and India via established trade routes. It is thought that the plant reached both Brazil ...

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 ...