With a recipe and knife in hand, you grab an onion, ready to get to dicing—but then you notice a green stem poking through the top. Before you reach for the take-out menus, you’ll want to read this.

You know that fragrant, savory aroma that fills the room when you start cooking dinner? More often than not, we have onions to thank. Onions, or any type of allium for that matter, are the simplest ...

Whatever you do, don’t keep onions in the fridge. Onions like nooks that are cool, dry, and dark. A refrigerator is cold (not ...

Having sent sugars and water to the sprout, the onion may taste a little bitter and possibly more fibrous; you’re more likely to notice this if you eat the onion raw. I’ve sauteed onions and garlic ...