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In the first 1938 edition of “Larousse Gastronomique,” an encyclopedic tome on gastronomy, editor Prosper Montagné advised treating and cooking rhubarb’s leaves as you would spinach. While the effects may well have proved fatal (high concentrations of oxalic acid render the leaves toxic) and left me wondering, “Did they have recipe testers back then?” Montagné may have been on to something. For many of us, it’s hard to imagine rhubarb without a generous amount of sugar to take the edge off its sharp taste.

Rumilda Fernández's indigenous community has long tended its ancestral lands in Paraguay, marking boundaries with an ancient system of names for trees and streams. Now, squeezed by deforestation and

Movie stars including Salma Hayek and Eva Longoria celebrated the role of women in cinema at a glitzy gala in Cannes on Sunday, amid a drive to promote gender equality in the industry that is still

New father Britain's Prince Harry returned on Saturday to the Windsor Castle chapel where he married Meghan Markle a year ago this weekend, attending the wedding of relative Lady Gabriella Windsor.

Dear Amy: Ever since my stepson announced his engagement to a lovely lady, his father and I have been treated like third wheels. First, my stepson told his father that he shouldn’t bother showing up at the rehearsal dinner, but told us which part of the rehearsal dinner we could pay for. His mother, “Jocelyn” (my husband’s ex), took charge of the location and arrangements. Now married, the couple is expecting a son soon.

Multi-planetary architectural firm AI Space Factory has been awarded first place in the NASA Centennial Challenge with its innovative 3D-printed design, MARSHA. The 15-foot-tall, pod-like design was digitally printed using a base of biodegradable and recyclable basalt composite derived from natural materials found on Mars. Not only does the concept envision a sustainable and resilient design that could meet all the demands of a Mars mission, but the interior living space would be modern and bright, complete with indoor gardens. The New York-based company managed to beat out 60 challengers that submitted designs for NASA’s Centennial Challenge, which looks for sustainable housing concepts for deep space exploration, including Mars.

Flowers are a feast for the senses of sight and smell, obviously, but also, increasingly, the taste buds. Blooms are enjoying a boom as ingredients in soups, salads and cheeses and as garnishes for cocktails and confections. Rose petal lemonade and hibiscus tea, herb blossom butters and dainty violets dipped in dark chocolate have found their way onto trendy menus.

The final spring frost may be behind us (fingers crossed). That means it is OK to plant hardened-off warm-season vegetables, perennials and ornamental annuals outside when nights are consistently above 50 degrees. In the Landscape Spring moisture often brings mushroom growth in lawns and mulched areas. Wear gloves, then remove and dispose of these little fungi forms to prevent kids and dogs from coming in contact with them.

Heat-treated pine and steel were used to create this unique treehouse inside the Garvan Woodland Gardens in central Arkansas. The space, a 210-acre nature park with botanical gardens owned by the University of Arkansas, borders the Quachita River. The structure itself resides inside a children’s garden full of native trees such as oak and pine, and serves as an interactive experience for children. The treatment process to create the “thermalised” southern yellow pine uses heat and steam to ensure longer-lasting durability of the wood.

Are you practicing safe selfies? It might be time to examine your photo-clicking habits and put caution first. In late March, a man visiting the Grand Canyon from Hong Kong tripped while taking a photo, falling over a 1,000-foot rim to his death. According to a 2018 report in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 259 people died in 137 incidents between 2011 and 2017 while taking selfies. Time and again, the smallest misstep, distraction or lapse in judgment has resulted in injury or death.

This May, American Victor Vescovo broke the standing record of the world’s deepest solo dive, venturing 7 miles into the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, where he discovered four potential new species as well as plastic waste and candy wrappers. Vescovo is a wealth equity investor with an interest in ocean exploration.

A team of wine pros known for their hit Italian restaurants Frasca and Tavernetta are opening a bar dedicated to wine — and vinyl — in Denver. For 15 years, Frasca master sommelier Bobby Stuckey has garnered a following, and plenty of awards, at his Boulder restaurant for a curated wine selection stemming from the Friuli region in Italy. Now he and his business partners — together with managers, chefs and sommeliers from both restaurants — are branching out with Sunday Vinyl at Union Station. It will be located across the way from Tavernetta, in a space previously occupied by a grab-and-go market.

A new study by an international group of scientists denounces the up-and-coming octopus farming industry as both detrimental to fragile marine ecosystems and unethical given their high intelligence. As countries like Japan announce they will start selling farmed octopus in 2020, researchers call on companies and governments to discontinue funding the new industry, claiming there is still an opportunity to prevent the same unethical and destructive mistakes that have already been made with land-based industrial farming. Currently, there are 550 marine and aquatic species farmed in nearly 200 countries.

Boarders and skiers participate in the 4th annual swimwear day and rail jam at Arapahoe Basin on May 11. Although ski season is coming to a close, a few mountains are still open to shredding. Check out the photos on The Know Outdoors.

A Polish artist has brought the horrors of the Holocaust to life in a graphic novel based on survivors' testimonies, published to mark the 75th anniversary of a museum on the site of the

A new edition of the diaries of Jewish teenager Anne Frank, based more closely on her incomplete manuscript before she was sent to her death in a Nazi concentration camp, will be published on