Summertime brings in truckloads of melons, from honeydew to cantaloupes and the quintessential thirst quencher, the watermelon. I keep a rotating collection of raw melons on my kitchen counter and ...

Three melon soup, a real showstopper, is as much fun to look at as it is refreshing to eat. The key, though, is to start with the ripest and most fragrant fruits available. In the case of cantaloupes ...

The Glendale Watermelon Festival isn’t about finding out who’s got the best melons. It’s a time-honored Glendale tradition that dates back to 1949, when local melon growers got together to celebrate ...

The Crenshaw melon (left) and the Canary melon are just two of the many melon varieties that will appear in markets this summer. Photo by Alastair Bland. Under the blazing summer sun, they bulge out ...