Our thirdborn son arrived for dinner on a recent evening to find me taking a fourth loaf of orange chocolate chip zucchini bread from the oven. “I see you’ve been baking like an old lady, Ma,” he said ...

A few summers ago, I joked about growing a $200 zucchini in a column. We were living in Snowmass at the time, and we built a vegetable garden next to our condo. It was toilsome and expensive to create ...

En route to the coffee pot at work Tuesday, I came upon: Clever marketing by whoever brought them in, but I'd rather take home a rabid bat than a zucchini. I was going to write anew about the problem ...

En route to the coffee pot at work Tuesday, I came upon: Clever marketing by whoever brought them in, but I’d rather take home a rabid bat than a zucchini. I was going to write anew about the problem ...

There’s a joke among gardeners who grow zucchini. During good years, we tease about leaving a few baseball bat-sized zucchini on the neighbor’s stoop and doing the old ding-dong-dash just to get rid ...

The legend goes that people used to leave zucchini on their neighbors’ porches in the late summer to get rid of the prolific vegetable. It’s easy to grow and gets a bad reputation among farmers and ...