Holidays

A good dip is hard to resist.

Heaped with bright and juicy blood oranges, briny olives, and flecks of sharp red onion, it’s a luxuriously simple interplay of flavors, textures, and colors with very few ingredients.

Fondues are a bit like Bloody Marys in that everyone has their own way of making one.

This recipe embodies the stillness of women who were unselfish givers inside and outside the home.

Magpie’s rendition of this classic retains the beloved sticky goo but incorporates coffee, cinnamon, and bittersweet chocolate to dial down the cloying sweetness and emphasize the euphoric flavor of the pecans.

I love snacking on packaged Middle Eastern sesame bars, which are very hard and crunchy. These florentines are much chewier, but their sesame flavor reminds me of those.

This lamb can be your savior on those evenings when you’ve got a bunch of strangers around the table.

Beguiling as a French fry, but with so much more charisma.

A quick toss of fresh fruit with flavor-enhancing salt and olive oil, some strategic (or rather, mindless) unwrapping of cheese and crackers, and you’re pretty much there, appetizer-wise.