We had just spent several days in a small village in the Tunisian desert, where camels outnumbered cars. Traveling in an ancient Volkswagen bug, my husband and I, college students down to our last few ...

One of the most common problems I hear about from readers — and it’s a very “California” problem — is that they have too much citrus. Usually it’s because they have a fruiting tree in their yard, or ...

Long before the food revolution in England brought us gastro pubs, Jamie Oliver and the Fat Duck, there was British marmalade. Dense with chunks of candied Seville orange peel and darkened with ...

Orange cookies are made with orange marmalade and "spiked" with flecks of dark chocolate and pieces of Mandarin oranges. Iced with an orange buttercream frosting, these cookies are made for extra ...

Il Bronzino’s magnificent portrait of Marie de Medici hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. As a 12- year-old girl, I stood in front of this painting of a young woman. The famous Mannerist ...

As a child, the first cookbook I was gifted was Mary Poppins in the Kitchen: A Cookery Book with a Story. It was the beginning of my love for foods from around Britain—especially foods served during ...

A note about that flavor: It is wholly dependent on the marmalade you use. If you use an insipid marmalade — one that’s mostly made up of cloying, neon orange jelly without many (or any) pieces of ...

Rachel Saunders is the former owner of Blue Chair Fruit Company, a beloved jam producer in Oakland focused on seasonal, sustainable fruit. In addition to teaching many workshops on preservation, she ...