Against the sunset, the thatch-roofed homes along the levee road leading to Bat Trang -- the famed pottery village just outside Hanoi, Vietnam -- look like a shimmering garden of flowering gourds.

Ginisang Upo with Sardines is a simple Filipino home style dish that combines tender bottle gourd with savory canned sardines ...

Bottle gourd, also known as Dudhi, is a member of the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, and is native to Africa and Asia. It is a vine plant that produces elongated, bottle-shaped fruits. The fruits vary ...

Bottle gourd, or lauki, is a popular vegetable in Indian kitchens. While it is celebrated for its health benefits, recent reports of toxicity from extremely bitter bottle gourd juice, call for caution ...

Commonly known as lau, bottle gourd or calabash has gained so much popularity in the Bangladeshi cuisine that there are even songs about the vegetable! It is usually cooked as a curry with shrimp in ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 13, 2005 -- Thick-skinned bottle gourds widely used as containers by prehistoric peoples were likely brought to the Americas some 10,000 years ago by individuals who arrived ...

This unusual shrine transforms a simple vegetable into a symbol of hope, making it a quiet, meaningful stop for exploring the ...

Against the sunset, the thatch-roofed homes along the levee road leading to Bat Trang -- the famed pottery village just outside Hanoi, Vietnam -- look like a shimmering garden of flowering gourds.