While out to dinner with my colleague and L.A. Times restaurant critic Bill Addison, we ordered an old-fashioned pear and blue cheese salad served over tender greens, which had just returned to the ...

Most marketing executives would kill for the kind of free advertising pear growers receive. Every year millions of Christmas carolers name-drop that fruit over and over and over. First published in ...

Pears tend to get lost in the shuffle when it comes to fall fruits, but they're nearly as versatile as apples, pomegranates, and cranberries. If you need more convincing, scroll through for sweet and ...

It's hard to compete with America's most readily available fruit, but that's precisely what pears do when they go head-to-head with apples each year. Due to their similar growing conditions, harvest ...

Despite its sweet flavor and superb nutritional profile, the humble pear has never gotten the attention it deserves. Which is puzzling on the face of it: The fruit is convenient to eat out of hand, ...

Pear trees offer a bounty of benefits besides their delicious fruit, both for you and for the wildlife that visits your yard ...