What is the difference between chives and green onions?

What's the difference between Chives, Scallions and Green Onions? Learn the difference and when you should use each one at Escoffier Online. read more

Specifically, green onions/scallions are the genus and species Allium fistulosum, a.k.a. the Japanese bunching onion or Welsh onion, says Dale W. McNeal, a professor emeritus of biology at the University of the Pacific in Northern California. read more

Chives are popular atop deviled eggs and brunch favorites. The next time you’re at the grocery store picking out products for your dishes, know this difference between these small – but important – spring favorites. read more

Chives vs Green Onions Bearing an uncanny resemblance to one another, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between the likes of the green onions, chives, scallions, shallots, leeks and onions all of which come from the onion family. read more