This excerpt has been reprinted with permission from A Change of Appetite: Where Healthy Meets Delicious by Diana Henry and published by Mitchell Beazley, 2014. Purchase this book from our store: A ...

Place a pecan half inside of a pitted date. Wrap each one in a half slice of bacon. If you wrap them tightly enough you don't have to secure them with a toothpick. Place wrapped dates on cookie sheet ...

The next time you’re looking for a sweet end to a Middle Eastern-inspired meal, try a no-bake dessert that’s a standard among Iranian cooks. A pair of small helper’s hands can stuff walnut pieces into ...

Sweet, chewy, and full of nutrients, dates can do more than satisfy your sweet tooth. Experts say that when you eat them ...

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I still remember seeing a recipe for bacon-wrapped dates in my cooking class recipe packet more than 30 years ago and thinking, "I'm not going to like this." When it came time to taste what we had ...

Unlike so many other ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine, dried red dates, known as jujubes, have a sweet, mild and pleasant taste. In the packet, the dates look small and wrinkled, but after ...