I don’t know when or where people got the sick notion that the holidays should be about rushing or working until the last minute. Trash. Doing the most for the holidays DURING the holidays isn’t going ...

Spread Adrianna Adarme's halva chocolate spread on toast or fruit. Learn more at the Fresh Tastes blog. I recently had pistachio­-studded halva at a restaurant and loved it. I had it at a Turkish ...

Want candy that’s good for you? Consider halva. Made primarily from sesame seeds, the confection is an excellent source of minerals. (A cup of sesame seeds has more iron than a cup of broccoli.) There ...

We asked several L.A.-area pastry chefs and cooks to contribute their favorite holiday cookies. Each is a simple, homestyle cookie that reflects the contributor’s memories of holidays past. I grew up ...

Rumored to possess mystical powers, the sesame seed goes above and beyond. The oldest oilseed crop has roots dating back centuries. Sesamum indicum, the cultivated sesame seed, originated in India.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Rose Wilde’s recipes in her cookbook “Bread ...