One of the simplest Spanish delicacies is a tapa called Pimientos de Padrón, small, flavorful green peppers that are blistered in olive oil over high heat and sprinkled with coarse salt. That’s it.

I first tasted Padron peppers at August Restaurant in New York’s West Village. The centerpiece of the restaurant is a beautiful Italian-style wood burning oven. The chef at the time, Tony Liu, simply ...

Get to know the small, spicy peppers of August: padron, shishito and Jimmy Nardellos. Time and summer's heat transform mild green peppers into richly flavored, sweet and crunchy vegetables that can ...

The day you learn to make perfectly blistered padrón peppers is the day you discover one of your new favorite side dishes. Padróns are Spanish peppers famous for their random spiceiness, but they are ...

Come July, a plateful of pan-fried Padron peppers become the favorite bar snack of the Eat Local crowd. Small and green, the peppers look innocent but can unexpectedly deliver a searing wallop to the ...

What they are: Padrón peppers are small, green peppers with a sweet, mild flavor. Occasionally, the odd rogue pepper can grow particularly hot and spicy, making eating a dish of these peppers (often ...

What's in your cart, chef? This week, we ask Kris Tominaga, partner, with Brian Dunsmoor, in The Hart and the Hunter at the Palihotel. Tominaga's smiling at a bag of small green peppers. “They're ...

Jim Dixon wrote about food for WW for more than 20 years, but these days most of his time is spent at his olive oil-focused specialty food business Wellspent Market. Jim’s always loved to eat, and he ...

Ultimately, only two things matter when preparing a spread for a Saturday or Sunday football binge — taste and ease of preparation. Those who target recipes that put them in the kitchen too long are ...

This is the first season Mike James of Blueberry Hill Farm in Clear Spring, Md., has grown Padrón peppers. “I had to read up on how to cultivate. The first few didn’t turn out so well,” he says. The ...

A fruit and vegetable stand in Little Spain has some hard-to-find items like fresh padrón peppers and dried ñora peppers. By Florence Fabricant There are some treasures to gather at Frutas y Verduras, ...