Seems like we waited forever for great summer produce, and now it’s abundantly here -- too abundantly, if you’re a fruit-tree owner, overly enthusiastic vegetable gardener or incorrigible farmers ...

I’m a happy camper this time of year, and no, not because children are going back to school. Late summer is when Italian plums come to market. To find them piled high in wooden pint baskets at a local ...

Canning is having a moment. So is pickling, preserving, jam making and all around “putting up,” as they used to say -- and now do once more -- of the season’s harvest. And if that puts you in mind of ...

An old-world plum forms many wonderful childhood memories. Grandmothers elevate something as simple as toast and jam to high status. Or at least that was the case of my maternal grandmother, Eliza ...