Making jams and marmalade is a great way to preserve the flavors of seasonal fruit and enjoy them during the long cold winters, but in...

The Passover Haggadah tells the story of the Israelites who endured hundreds of years of slavery in Egypt until God freed them. Then,...

These cookies are inspired by Ma'amoul - a Middle Eastern cookie stuffed with date paste or chopped walnuts or pistachios and dusted with...

Summers in the Middle East are long, hot, and dry, but it's the springtime heat waves and sandy winds that create a major threat to crops...

The eggplant is a king in the Levant cuisine, we fry it, roast it, bake with it, cook it, stuff it, and pickle it, but we especially like...

Before the full-with-flavors yogurts overtook the shelves in grocery stores - these that already include fruit jam on the bottom of the...

The biblical story of Esav, who sells his birthright to his younger brother Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew, inspired generations of home...

We cook with tahini, bake with tahini, incorporate it into sweet and savory dishes, and we also drink tahini! we blend tahini into our...

I started to sell homemade sweet tahini spreads in farmers' markets in the fall of 2017 when most Americans recognized tahini as a key...

We always love to end our meals with something sweet, and in the summer, our dessert usually includes fruit cake. This is the cake our...

Knafeh is one of the desserts that people in Israel are willing to stand in long lines or drive far to bakeries in Arabic villages for....

Shawarma is one of the most popular street foods in Israel and in Levantine Arab countries. The word shawarma means turning- a reference...

Lately, the internet is exploded with sweet baked goods recipes made with tahini. It almost seemed like a new revelation, that tahini has...

Once upon a time, Jaffa oranges were an icon that was widely associated with Israel. This citrus, named after the historic port city, was...

This stew of lentils and rice is the ultimate Middle Eastern comfort food. The beauty of this dish is in its simple ingredients, which...

Growing up in the small town of Rehovot, I often joined my mom on her trip to the local shuk (open-air market). She would speed walk...

Everything tastes better with tahini, nobody in Israel would argue that. Israeli kids have their first tahini taste in their baby food...

Halvah is the crumbly dense Arab confection made with tahini and sugar. A truly delicious halvah (halvah means “sweet” in Arabic) is...

Israeli are mad about burekas - a puff pastry filled with savory stuffing. Stroll down the open-air markets in Tel Aviv or Ramla, and...

Pita, or flatbread, is the most common type of bread in the Middle East. I remember baking pita at a very young age at the Israeli...