Apply heat to the bluish-purple fruit and it gives up flavor perfect for baking By DANIELLE CENTONI The Oregonian Italian plums, to borrow a phrase, don't get no respect. They're about half the size ...

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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, ...

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 ...

The appearance of prune plums and Black Mission figs in late summer is a gentle but firm reminder that our current bounty of delicate fruits will soon give way to fall's crisper, heartier cousins. To ...

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 ...

If central Europe had a counterpart to the phrase, "as American as apple pie," it would have to be "as German (or Swiss, or Austrian) as pflaumenkuchen." Pflaumenkuchen (plum cake) is the most common ...