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, ...

If you’re like me, then you have many childhood summer memories — towering cones of swirled soft-serve ice cream, ice-cold Creamsicles and pucker-inducing fresh Italian prune plums. OK, maybe not the ...

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 ...

Luscious purple Italian prune plums are in area markets now - and also ripening on backyard trees, so don't dally. Buy or pick a few pounds and bake several of these fabulous plum tortes. You'll ...

Hail to the Italian prune plum, the one that stands up to heat with distinction. This oblong plum, its skin a reddish-blue usually touched with wisps of powdery blue, emerges as the slightly tart ...

For the last 12 years that I lived in New York, smells of cinnamon-tinged, buttery cake filling the air after Labor Day meant one thing: Italian prune plum season was upon us. That season, much like ...