Dried fruit is a delicious snack. That's a fact, plain and simple. It makes a great addition to a midday snack of brain-powering nuts and seeds, or adds a natural sweetness to your morning oatmeal. It ...

A simple addition of crushed freeze-dried strawberries can take any sweet treat to new heights. With a bright and colorful ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One fine way to smuggle some of summer into winter is to cook with dried fruit. Sunshine is packed into dried apricots, grapes (raisins), dates, currants, ...

Deborah Madison is known for great vegetarian cookbooks, beginning with the landmark “Greens Cookbook,” which she wrote in 1987 as the founding chef of Greens Restaurant in San Francisco. Clearly this ...

The season of fresh fruit — and the urge to preserve it — will soon be upon us. Strawberries and rhubarb open the season, their bright red signaling the official stop to winter. Preserve recipes are ...

Dehydrated Dragon Fruit is a fun snack that's easy to make. You can use this dried fruit for a snack, a creative food topping ...

Dried fruit is often incorporated into the Tu B’Shvat seder to reference the seven fruits of Israel. Photograph by Shulie Madnick. This year for Tu B’Shvat I’ll be making a dried fruit compote. The Tu ...

Imagine turning Tax Day into a holiday. That’s what happened with Tu Bishvat, the 15th day of the Jewish month of Shvat, which is Thursday. During the time of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, Tu Bishvat ...