Turns out, there's both a botanical and a legal definition for what makes a food a fruit or a vegetable. There’s no doubt that tomatoes are one of the most versatile foods around, as happy in a summer ...

Inspiration for today's column comes from Jack Roper, WSPA TV's man about town. I happened to run into Jack at the Fall Home Show sponsored by the Greenville Home Builders Association. When Jack found ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Fruits of Solanum plants, a group in the nightshade family, are incredibly diverse, ranging from sizable red tomatoes and purple eggplants to the poisonous green berries on ...

Amy Y. Conry Davis is a writer who specializes in green living, sustainability, and travel. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of San Diego. Let's settle this debate once and for all: the ...

It's an ongoing debate: Is the tomato a fruit or vegetable? Botanically, it's considered a fruit with flesh surrounding and protecting seeds but, tastewise, we think of fruit as something sweet that ...