Los Angeles Times

Recipes for dates and how best to cook with them

These recipes are part of a package of stories on dates in Southern California. When it comes to cooking with dates, not all varieties are created equal. For the most part, you can bank on dates ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

It’s a date! Lesser-used fruit is ripe for sweet and savory recipes

As the daughter of a mother whose family came to the United States a century ago from Syria, I grew up eating dates. Dates were particularly plentiful during the holidays, when pitted dates were ...
WBUR

Whether sweet, salty or savory, it's a date: 3 recipes that make use of this underappreciated fruit

Find more stories like this one on our podcast, Here & Now Anytime. When you ask Joan Smith, owner of Rancho Meladuco in Mecca, California, about dates, you’re met with an onslaught of adjectives: ...
Los Angeles Times

Tropical fruit recipes for ‘getting away’ in your kitchen

Some years, you just can’t get away. Despite my desire for a vacation — particularly after the cold, gray start of this year — where I can just sweat and eat delicious fruit and sip cold drinks for ...
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Dates as sweetener: Bake low-sugar cake with apples or other fruit

Try baking this apple cake - though it works well with other fruit too - the possibilities are practically endless. You can even bake it without using refined sugar. Susann Kreihe, recipe and cookbook ...