My brother, John, arrived on my doorstep with a roughly 2 1/2-foot-long cucuzza. He and my brother Michael both grow the Italian squash in their gardens, so I've eaten the snake-like creatures -- ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Now trending in the gourd grower’s garden — cucuzza, a hit parade of vines, tendrils and edible squash. Cucuzza -- aka “gagootz” -- is an aggressive creeper that yields baseball ...

There are green and yellow zucchini plus their dradle-shaped, relatives -- petite and delicate Patty Pans. But the squash family's over-sized cugini, the cucuzza, might well be the mother of all ...

This spring, like so many others, I found myself with some extra time on my hands and nowhere to go. So, I decided to work on some projects that I have been putting on the back burner for several ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- You don’t know what a “gagootz” is? Well, let Staten Island show you the way to the Italian squash, technically known as cucuzza. Yes, it’s called “cucuzza,” technically ...

Sometimes, I try new ways to cook familiar favorites. Other times, I try to make a familiar favorite out of a new ingredient. This week, I thought I’d try my hand at cucuzza, often called Italian ...

Back in 2014 I wrote two articles here about the Italian cucuzza squash. As a quick recap, I had received a few tiny, leftover cucuzza squash seedling starts from a colleague who got them from his ...

I spotted it from across the farmers market. How could I not? It was 3 feet of pure challenge staring right at me. The handwritten sign read “snake gourd,” but my internet research said “serpent ...