The beauty of a persimmon is undeniable. Their gorgeous deep shades of orange shine in the gray time of fall to winter. Imagine discovering these jewels on a woodland hike or seeing them in your ...

“Persimmons look and taste like the fall season,” says Rachel Sullivan, the farm assistant at Frog Hollow Farm, a Brentwood, California, farm currently in the middle of its annual persimmon harvest.

No fruit—or berry, if you want to get technical—demonstrates the virtue of patience more dramatically than the persimmon. So powerfully astringent is the unripe Hachiya variety, it’s a wonder Kiehl’s ...

To prepare the persimmon and cocoa pudding, first remove the stem from the persimmons (1). Peel them (2) and transfer all the pulp into a blender (3). Add the cocoa as well (4) and blend everything ...

Cornelia Lambert called the Hidden Kitchens Hotline to tell us how her grandmother, Ruby, turned her legendary cooking into a local fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity. This recipe was suggested by ...

Persimmons, spices and plenty of booze make for a warm, celebratory holiday finish to dinner. (Dylan + Jeni/For the Times; prop styling by Kate Parisian) Desserts are always tricky at Christmas. You ...

This dessert is an update on classic persimmon pudding. It’s typically spiced like gingerbread and very sweet, but this version is made with pureed Hachiya persimmons, delicately spiced with nutmeg ...

One woman’s wasp magnets can be the urban food forager’s delight. So I learned, one fall day, as I complained to my husband about the orange orbs leaking fragrantly and sparking a backyard bacchanalia ...