Eggplant Recipes

Eggplant was once a stand-in for meat in humble Italian homes. Now the vegetable is beloved in its own right for its silky texture and ability to absorb flavor. Here,…

Many older recipes call for salting raw eggplant before cooking it to temper the vegetable’s tendency toward bitterness. These days the bitterness has largely been bred out, but salting eggplant…

  If you’ve been intimidated by eggplant in the past, it’s time to give it a try. Eggplants are at their best and most abundant in late summer, and they…