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, ...

They’re a baker’s dream, with a short, sweet season that ends just around the time pumpkins start popping up in markets. Italian prune plums – egg-shaped, purple and slightly smaller than regular ...

Italian prune plums, also known as quetsch or Empress plums, are one of my favorite tastes of late summer and early fall. Their season is brief, so I snap them up when I see them. Relative to many ...

There are so many touchstones that announce fall's arrival. Think school buses, shorter days, cooler nights and mums in bloom. For me, an early harbinger is the arrival of Italian prune plums. In late ...

As summer goes by there's a pageant of plums in the markets. Bringing up the rear are Italian prune plums, the last of the lot, a harbinger of autumn. They're peewees compared to crimson-colored Rosas ...

Back when I was a young boy, and my family had our produce store in North Jersey, we had a customer that my mother and father called Oma. She was a German lady and one of our best customers when it ...