If California has an emblematic Christmas feast, a holiday tradition that captures the spirit and history of this state of displaced people, it might well be the Bracebridge Dinner at Yosemite’s ...

Turn your favorite summer fruit into sweet, tart, and juicy jam. This classic strawberry jam can be easily altered to your liking. You can experiment with sweeteners like brown sugar or honey, replace ...

Valerie Confections, this week at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. She was positively glowing about her apricots. I had to ask, what isn’t she doing with apricots? Until the Blenheims arrive, she is ...

Yellow plum jam brings a bit of Italian summer right into your kitchen, no matter the time of year. And listen, this yellow ...

Just what are those not-quite-plum things in the supermarket produce section? As their names imply, they're part plum, part apricot. Plumcots were originally bred as half plum, half apricot in the ...