Clear your cupboard, empty your fridges and rejig your pantries, because a new superfood is in town and people are lapping it up by the bucketload. Chayote (pronounced 'chocho') is a pale-green, ...

From acai and goji berries to yogurt and fish, the superfoods list only continues to grow year after year. And this year is no exception. Introducing the versatile superfruit: the chayote. After ...

The French chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud has restaurants in New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., Palm Beach, Miami, Toronto, Montréal, London, Singapore, and Dubai. Daniel is mostly known ...

Unless you're familiar with them, at first glance you might mistake chayotes for pears. In fact, one of the many names for this pale green member of the squash family is vegetable pear (though, like ...

Chayote squash has just the right texture for shredding into a crunchy and refreshing slaw that’s great by itself, piled onto a barbecue sandwich or folded into a meaty taco. Instructions: Shred the ...

Ask cookbook author Lesley Tellez, a Southern Californian now living in New York, about her taste memories from the four years she lived in Mexico City, and they come tumbling out like sweets from a ...

The term Colombian Exchange was first used in 1972 by American historian and professor Alfred W. Crosby in his environmental history book of the same name. It has now become a widely used term by ...