Note: When Michelle Huneven started thinking about recipes to serve at a fund-raising dinner that she was to cook for her church, a friend suggested this traditional French country dish. It can be ...

Plums are a type of stone fruit with a delicious sweet flavor. The fruit grows on trees that, once planted, can take four to six years to even bear fruit according to the California Prune Board. Even ...

market distinguished by their smaller size, and oval rather than round shape. More dark blue than purple in color with a yellow-green interior, prune plums are a free stone (pit easily removed from ...

There are so many touchstones that announce fall's arrival. Think school buses, shorter days, cooler nights and mums in bloom. For me, an early harbinger is the arrival of Italian prune plums. In late ...

Here is a question from a faithful reader: “Is plum juice as effective as prune juice as a laxative for elders? Your column is so reliable &appreciated. g.w.” We might think this would be an easy ...