I’m a happy camper this time of year, and no, not because kids are going back to school. Mid-August is when Italian plums come to market. To find them piled high in wooden pint baskets at a local ...

Natal plum (Carissa macrocarpa) grows all over Southern California, especially in San Diego. It is generally planted as an ornamental hedge. Given the dense growth and formidable thorns, it creates an ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plums are sweet, tart, juicy…and extremely perishable. Yes, indeed—this sexy summer stone fruit can make you swoon when perfectly ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you ask a group of friends what their favorite fruit is, chances are their responses will reflect the ones most frequently sold ...

Delayed gratification is never a pleasant thing. “I’d gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today,” was a favorite maxim of Wimpy from the “Popeye” cartoons. And so when a friend told me last ...