Rachel Rappaport lives, writes and cooks in Baltimore. Her recipe blog, Coconut & Lime, was the winner of the "best original recipes" category in the 2006 Food Blog Awards. Purim doesn't get the same ...

It’s a sure sign of Purim, and spring, when those little jelly-filled triangle cookies start popping up in bakeries everywhere. The beloved little treats are called hamantashen. They look just like ...

You might not have heard of hamantaschen (pronounced hah-mentash-in) or Purim, the Jewish holiday these shaped filled cookies represent, but this tasty treat might just become your favorite ...

From Purim baskets to hamentaschen, here's where these customs came from From Purim baskets to hamentaschen, here's where these customs came from This week, Jewish people around the world are ...

If you’ve never tried a hamantaschen, Wednesday could be the day to change that. The triangle-shaped cookies filled with jam or chocolate are a staple during Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrated every ...

Purim just wouldn’t be the same without its sweet, triangular-shaped, jelly-filled pastry. The Jewish holiday of Purim celebrates the defeat of Haman, the vizier of the Persian Empire, who plotted to ...

This week at Breads Bakery in New York City, one cookie is bound to outsell the rest. "Hamantaschen are the most perfect little cookie," said owner Gadi Peleg. "The most requested item that we get to ...

"There's just one right way to make hamantaschen and that's the way your mother made them," Fred Merriam says to no one in particular but generally everyone gathered around the stainless prep station ...

Purim, the Jewish holiday based on the Book of Esther, starts today at sundown. The Purim celebration recounts the story of Queen Esther and how she saved the Jewish people from annihilation. The ...