Many ancient sweeteners are long forgotten, overtaken by the simple, clean taste of granulated sugar. Take for instance, date syrup. Also called date molasses, melasse de datte, rub, dibs or silvan, ...

What could be sweeter than starting the New Year with a cake? The Ashkenazi custom of serving honey cake for Rosh Hashanah is well known. But in my Moroccan Sephardic family, the tradition is to bake ...