I interrupt today’s cocktail hour to talk about…cocktails. After naming, renaming, classifying plants, and pondering the meaning of life, our friends at Botanists ‘R Us, probably needed a good stiff ...

“The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.” These words of Thomas Jefferson are precious to me since I have long felt that I can provide no more ...

National Fruit Cocktail Day was Thursday, which provided a good a reason as any to dive into the history of the staple of school lunches everywhere, which was invented in San Jose during the heyday of ...