In the brief time toward the end of summer when Italian prune plums are available, a kuchen is an excellent way to use the fleshy fruits. Originally grown in France, these plums have thin skins and ...

SUBMITTED PHOTO Plums are a great fruit for home canning. Sweet and juicy canned plums bring a taste of summer to winter meals. Plums are not as widely grown in Missouri as some other fruits like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...