Salting the fruit and squeezing out the juice before cooking reduces the sharpness. Those who grow bitter melon often combine it with other savory ingredients and eat it stir-fried, steamed ...

where Ben and Sandra Sakaguchi have been growing bitter melon, Chinese cabbage and other Asian vegetables for 30 years. But the vegetable remains a mystery to most Midwesterners. When the Eccles ...

Those stands often employ a white Okinawan variety of bitter melon. Leslie Wiser has been growing this and a handful of other bitter-melon varieties at Radical Family Farms, her three-acre farm in ...

But on the side and backyard of Phannie Truong’s Laurel house are kumquats, ong choy, bok choy, Asian long beans and bitter melon — all ... gardeners like to grow heirloom or slicing tomatoes ...