I’ve been spending the past week in the Bay Area, and last Saturday I finally got the chance to go to Berkeley’s downtown farmers market. It was fun to see new (for me) vendors selling great bread, ...

The dark cherries and unsweetened cocoa have antioxidants that fight inflammation, and the chia seeds are full of satiating ...

This fresh fruit salad recipe is a favorite of my kids! I love living in the Pacific Northwest; we have access to excell ...

Perhaps one of the first domesticated fruits, plums are an unsung hero in sweet and savory dishes alike. Jodie Kautzmann is an editor, baker, and confectioner with more than 15 years of experience in ...

I'd never tasted — let alone baked — the dazzling plum torte from the New York Times, despite its firmly entrenched role in the national baking consciousness. Fortunately, my pal John rectified that ...

This week, I was invited to a friend’s place to break the fast for Yom Kippur. I was tasked with making a dessert, and after a lot of research on what is traditional for the holiday, I found that, ...

This is both the most often published and the most requested recipe in the Times archives. By my count, Marian Burros (who was given the recipe by Lois Levine, with whom Burros wrote "Elegant but Easy ...

One could write a treatise on the evolution of plum pudding from medieval kitchens to the present and never run out of information. And I'm sure someone has done it. Recipes for plum pudding abound.