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 ...

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 ...

When I see the ripened bronze color of Muscadine grapes in late summer here in the Cape Fear region, I am generally indulging in a great snack. Beware the seeds, but the juicy, sweet flesh makes me ...

I remember my mom used to go down the country roads and pick wild grapes for jelly making. I believe she called them Mustang grapes, but that is too much of a stretch for me to claim I remember the ...

Perhaps no other fruit is better adapted to South Carolina’s climate than muscadine grapes (Muscadinia rotundifolia). A cousin of table and wine grapes, muscadines are much more tolerant of our heat, ...

It’s not the response for which one hopes when identifying herself to the person who has picked up the phone. But Judy Parks’ reaction to hearing my voice Friday morning for the first time in three ...