When I crave the zing and zest of summer desserts but don’t have access to fresh fruit, I turn to the freeze-dried versions. These weightless dehydrated fruit pieces span all seasonal produce, from ...

Sugar is the most common sweetener in desserts, but it's far from the only sweetener in existence. While honey and maple syrup may come to mind as worthy sugar substitutes, fruit is the sweet ...

You’ve been patient, avoiding the early apricots of June that looked so tempting on the market shelves but didn’t have that rich perfume and luscious honey-and-cinnamon flavor of July apricots. Now is ...

Apricots are one of those fruits that taste just okay raw, but transform when cooked (unlike, ahem, strawberries). They often sit in the shadow of peaches, but there’s no use in comparing the two.