Taste and Texture: "Parsnips are a mild-flavored root vegetable," says Alex Mazzucca, chef and co-owner of Seed to Sprout, a plant-based cafe in New Jersey. They taste similar to carrots ...

Alongside the usual mulch of gardening goodies - a how-to on home-growing parsnips and skirret, a plant that tastes like an oyster, and the curious appearance of a partridge in a pear tree - Kathy ...