Colombo is describing a Variegato di Chioggia, one of the more than 25 varieties of radicchio she and husband Brian Shipman are growing on their farm in Troutdale, Oregon. A significant portion of ...

Proper growing practices also mellow out the notorious bitterness of the radicchio plant, making it perfectly palatable. You might have heard that radicchio is bitter, which may have put you off ...

Narrator] But for a growing number of Northwest farmers, chefs, and food lovers, there's a radicchio revolution afoot. Any revolution starts small. - It's still kind of a fringe crop. It's a small ...

Marchini Farms, who pioneered commercial radicchio growing in the U.S. in 1989, and of Italians Lucio Gomiero and Carlo Boscolo who teamed with Salinas Valley growers to produce radicchio in the ...