Easy, Elegant Entertaining With Endive

If you’re looking to make your holidays simple yet special, don’t overlook endive.

A member of the chicory family, which includes radicchio, escarole, and curly endive, endive (pronounced “on-dev”) is sometimes called the queen of vegetables and is prized the world over. It has a crisp texture and a sweet, nutty flavor with a pleasantly mild bitterness.

Always in Season
Whether you use red or white – or a combination, which always looks especially pretty – the small, slim heads have a natural elegance. They’re available year-round at most major supermarkets, and are grown by California Vegetable Specialties, the only U.S. producer of Belgian-style endive and the largest producer of red endive in the world.