One of my favorite sweets are Joyva Honey Sesame bars. http://www.halvah.biz/Sesame.php Basically they are just honey, corn syrup and sesame seeds mixed together, and then dried or perhaps baked a bit to make them solid and...

, nuts, and halvah, and Lin’s Dumpling House on Pell St. Lin’s was a next-door neighbor to the Manhattan Chinatown Joe’s and in my opinion, excepting Joe’s stellar soup dumplings and scallion pancake (and...

Inner Sunset would be EAST of 19th Ave.From “Mid” to “Outer” heading west.The Middle Eastern Market on 14th/Taraval now stocks more spices.Operated by Jordanians, they have a huge inventory of Israeli...

Halvah? Jewish treat. Very sweet, but good. A few recipes below. http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/262/Halvah15242.shtml http://www.recipecottage.com/candy/halvah02.html http://www.recipecottage.com/candy/halvah04.html http

and katayif pastries, as well as a thin cake-sized slice of halvah from one of their several loaves and cakes of fresh halvah. Aphrodite appears to make many of its Greek pastries in house, as the proprietor, proud of their wares...

sounds like it could be halvah, which is a mixture of sesame paste and honey. depending on how its made halvah can either break apart into a crumbly texture or else in sections with a threadlike grain. it doesn’t sound like...

Ha! I will join your little band. I like to drain the oil off tahini and mix it with an equal part honey, then spread that on toast. Tastes like warm halvah! If you’re feeling indulgent, mix the drained almond butter with a...

a fresh jalebi (what’s the singular? jaleb? jaleba?), stunningly fresh and not at all chewy, better than the ones I used to get all the time in Queens. I bought some sweets to go for a friend, a couple of gulab jamun and...

not very tasty. For desert on the indian side was another interesting item – poornapoli, which are little fritters stuffed with halvah and a little dal and then deep-fried, sorta like the chinese sesame/red bean balls you...

Wow Pasha was excellent! My new best kosher restaurant-had the halvah covered ice cream for dessert (sounds weird but was great), the lamb chops and the beef (word I can’t pronounce) on pita. We loved the dandelion-parsley...

Za’atar, tahini, halvah (חלבה), olive oil, and any cheese [shahat, tiltan, tavor].

of fascinating dry goods and produce, generally middle-eastern in origin. They have the most extensive selection of doogh (thin yogurt drink) I have seen anywhere. I’ve picked up a slab of Bulgarian feta for the chowpup,...

, the gnocchi were to die for. Best I’ve ever had (yes, even better than Vetri IMHO – though very different). For dessert, I had the pumpkin cake with English toffee and candied pumpkin seeds, he had the halvah...

Thousand Oaks Blvd. in the Palm Plaza Thousand Oaks #805.494-3646 This is a great market to wander and shop. While I was there, I also bought some halvah, some orange flower water for my green tea, and some chick pea cookies...

was there recently, and had an array of four raw Hawaiian fish meze and the “open” mousaka with braised goat. My wife had grilled branzino with artichoke confit and dandelion greens and an avgolemono sauce....