While reading a British baking book, I recently came across an ingredient I was not familiar with: stem ginger in syrup. A quick internet search informed me stem ginger in syrup is basically chunks of ...

I fell in love with gingerbread years before I ever tasted it. The gingerbread that I was so fond of as a child was the story of the little gingerbread boy who ran out of the oven so fast that he ...

Run, run, run as fast as you can…it’s time to bake a gingerbread man! Gingerbread men (and women) are the epitome of classic Christmas cookies. But the holiday staple has origins that far predate its ...

Of all the spices associated with the holiday season, none can match the exotic cachet of ginger. The Sanskrit word from which it derives means "horn root." In English, too, ginger is sometimes called ...

No confectionery symbolizes the holidays quite like gingerbread. While most of us associate gingerbread with edible houses and spiced loaves of cake-like bread, it's also increasingly appearing as ...

The sweet, syrupy, spiced confection we now turn into frosted houses and soft holiday loaves has roots dating back thousands of years. Historians say an Armenian monk first brought gingerbread to ...

TAMPA, Fla. (BLOOM) – Ginger is a staple ingredient in many kitchens, known for its bold, spicy flavor and numerous health benefits. But if not stored properly, it can dry out, lose its potency, or ...

Although ginger originated in the rainforests of Southeast Asia, the first recorded use of gingerbread dates to 992, when Gregory of Nicopolis, an Armenian monk, brought it to Europe and taught French ...

(NEWS10) — It’s officially the holiday season. A time for decking the halls, singing carols, giving and receiving gifts, and of course, baking gingerbread houses complete with intricately stenciled ...

I tasted my first tagine in my 20s. A newly minted New Yorker, I went out to dinner in Greenwich Village to a now-shuttered restaurant called Cookies and Couscous. While sitting by the window and ...