It can sometimes be tough to find prickly pear in traditional grocery stores, but there's one sure way of getting your hands on the fruit: Steaz Prickly Pear Water, the buzziest functional beverage of ...

Seasonal fruit beers will soon start to hit shelves and taps, and I am hoping to see prickly pear beers among them. Last fall, I made my own prickly pear juice — sweet, with a strangely distinctive ...

Hank Shaw is the author of Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast. This week on Good Food he talks to Evan about foraging for prickly pears in Los Angeles. Hank likes to make Prickly Pear ...

Prickly pear fruit (and pads) is just one of many wild desert foods long used by Indigenous people. If you are harvesting prickly pear fruit this year, do so with respect, leaving fruit on the cactus ...

A night of holiday-party drinking doesn't have to be painful the next morning, thanks to a common desert plant. The fruit of the prickly pear cactus is a lean, mean hangover-fighting machine. Grown in ...

In this video, I demonstrate how to create a tool from a giant cane stem to safely harvest thorny prickly pear fruit from the ...

This fruit often is described as a cross between a watermelon and bubblegum, and can be found on the side of Southwestern highways. It's the prickly pear. The fruit and its nopales (the fleshy, ...

We are approaching peak prickly pear season. Based on the prickly pear fruit she can see in her neighborhood, Sonya Norman gives it another week or two before the fruit is really ready for harvest.

Most people look at a prickly pear cactus and admire the pretty green paddles and the stunning fuchsia and orange fruit capped with gold blossoms. Boulders chef Martin Scott sees pecan-smoked rancher ...

Technically it wasn’t cooking. But the single worst culinary misadventure I’ve ever had did start in the kitchen—in a loose sense, anyway—and was inspired by a very real craving. This craving was my ...