It’s spinach-picking season, and it occurred to me that for many Americans of my vintage, the most lasting childhood association with spinach may have nothing to do with the dinner table. I cannot ...

More than a few of us have been examining our salads more carefully since an outbreak of E. coli last week linked to California spinach. Federal officials on Tuesday said investigators are zeroing in ...

E.C. Segar’s famous cartoon creation, Popeye, was miraculously transformed into a superhero by eating a can of spinach, no doubt influenced by many scientific reports of the 1920s extolling the ...