Cucuzza is originally from Sicily and Southern Italy. It is not a squash but a slender thin-skinned gourd. It grows well in the heat and was grown by Thomas Jefferson in Montpellier.

In the season when super-sized zucchinis stage takeovers in backyard gardens around the state, Ben Longo's squashes are in a plot of their own. There's the tasty ones, used for soups and sautees ...

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 ...

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 ...

Holy cow! A few weeks ago I wrote about my gardening experience with what I referred to as an Italian squash and asked if anyone would be willing to share a recipe and some information about the pl… ...

The Livonia couple grows Sicilian zucchini, also known as cucuzza squash. Or as Ersilia puts it, it’s the squash that “went crazy.” The vegetables measure 52-64 inches and dangle from vines ...

The Italian Gardeners' Association Cucuzza Drill Team grows squash fit for royalty. While Great Britain is marking Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee with conventional pomp and circumstance, the ...