These recipes are part of a package of stories on dates in Southern California. When it comes to cooking with dates, not all varieties are created equal. For the most part, you can bank on dates ...

Dates, the fruit of the date palm, are one of nature’s sweetest creations. You may think of them as a dried fruit, which makes sense, because, like dried fruits, they’re wrinkly, chewy and very sweet.

As the daughter of a mother whose family came to the United States a century ago from Syria, I grew up eating dates. Dates were particularly plentiful during the holidays, when pitted dates were ...