I make Pflaumenkuchen in the early fall when autumn plums, also known as Italian prune plums or blue plums, are in season.

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, ...

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Now’s the time to bake with Italian prune plums, those succulent dark purple fruits that are flooding farmers markets and supermarkets right now. Some even call them the zucchini of fruit! But let’s ...

As summer goes by there's a pageant of plums in the markets. Green plums, black ones, red ones: sweet, succulent fruit giving forth nectar for warm weather refreshment. Bringing up the rear are ...

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A few weeks ago I dropped into Alexis, a tiny grocery store on the corner of Montrose and La Crescenta avenues, for a zoulbia. A teatime Persian dessert, zoulbia looks like a fat spider web. Tubes of ...

We're about to acquire a big bag of Italian prunes, and we're delighted. No, we don't need more fiber in our diets; we simply like prunes' flavor and versatility. So we always say yes to our ...