My canary melon brightened up my kitchen just long enough ... outdoor café in Sorrento on Italy’s Amalfi coast. There, the salad had just two ingredients: cantaloupe and cured ham.

If you have a taste for the spicy, add paprika. Spicy Arugula-Avocado Salad with Sweet Corn and Canary Melon Yellow-skinned with snow-white flesh and named for its islands of origin off the ...

Take a sweet summer melon and pair it with one of the saltiest of cheeses, and you have yourself a match made in heaven. Fresh mint and lime dressing and a few cracks of black pepper are all you ...

Take a sweet summer melon and pair it with one of the saltiest of cheeses, and you have yourself a match made in heaven. Fresh mint and lime dressing and a few cracks of black pepper are all you ...

A cold, water-logged slice of melon seems to make a scorching day more bearable. Whether watermelon, cantaloupe or honeydew, melons are one of summer's coolest, juiciest and healthiest fruits.

Does the notion of sliced canary melon grilled and treated like a feta-gigged vegetable salad appeal? Or Gulf shrimp as long as your hand, marinated in peppery fish sauce and impeccably grilled?