Tear a single leaf of fresh basil, and you are enveloped in the essence of summer. It’s refreshingly delicious in this easy ...

GENOA — You know pesto is popular in the United States when you can order a chicken sandwich at McDonald’s and it arrives spread with the basil paste. Well, it happens in Italy too, where I ate pesto ...

Each year, tracks from musical artists of all types vie for the coveted “song of the summer” title. If there were an herb of the summer, that crown would always be snugly rested atop basil’s head.

Grow fresh basil with our step-by-step instructions.

Basil comes from the Greek word basileus, meaning “king” since it is believed to have grown where St. Constantine and Helen founded the Holy Cross. Grown seasonally with roma tomatoes during the ...