Sourdough and persimmon are what is featured this week in Recipe Swap. Readers have been busy baking, cooking and sharing all of those great recipes for other readers to try, so keep up the good work.

Autumn brings two luscious varieties of persimmons to the marketplace. One, the Hachiya, is heart-shaped and a vivid orange. It needs to be fully ripe with a water balloon-like consistency to be ...

Fuyu Persimmons are an Asian variety that grow well in the United States. They are characterized by their flat tops and bottoms and a warm orange color when ripe. (Photo by Julie Barnett) On a recent ...

Sure, Grandma’s pudding is great. We love it, we really do. But as these recipes from a trio of Mass Ave masters demonstrate, there is so much more to the squishy fruit. Preheat oven to 450. Beat the ...

We're right in the middle of persimmon season. At the restaurant, we buy 12 to 15 cases of Fuyu persimmons - a non-astringent, squat variety - from Lightsey Farms in Mexia. We let them ripen outdoors ...

Persimmon season in Missouri is roughly September through October, and while these fruits are a delicious treat, they can be hard to find and are often considered a niche culinary item. There are many ...

I recently got a new cookbook in the mail. It’s not very big — at about 8-by-5-inches and a scant 130 pages or so of text, it’s dwarfed by many of the books in my collection. But like its subject, it ...

Autumn brings two luscious varieties of persimmons to the marketplace. One, the Hachiya, is heart-shaped and a vivid orange. It needs to be fully ripe with a water balloon-like consistency to be ...