Taste Test Tuesday got a little wild with the 6 in the morning team. They tried out handmade muscadine jelly, which Tess Maune's husband made using muscadine grapes that the two picked in the wild in ...

This is the last installment of “L.A. in a Jar,” cooking columnist Ben Mims’ four-part series on preserving fruit at home. The first fruit preserve I ever ate was muscadine jelly. A woman in my small ...

The muscadine grape is as Southern as cotton - actually, it is more so, since it is native to the region. The various kinds of cotton grown in the South, Gossypium species, are native to Asia, Africa ...

There's problem, though. Many people have a hard time getting past the thick skin and bitter seeds of the muscadine. Not totally unexpected for a fruit that takes its name from the smell of a male ...

You can’t travel far in Northeastern North Carolina without passing a home with muscadine grapes growing in the backyard. Many of those vines we see have been growing for decades and the care of them ...

It’s vine time as muscadines and scuppernongs are ripening now. These sour-skinned, but spicy-sweet on the inside native grapes, often referred to as the “Grapes of the South,” are like rutabagas and ...

Muscadine grapes are in season in our area. Known for their unique flavor, they are very different from the California seedless grapes at local stores. Muscadines have a stronger flavor, seeds and a ...