(The Nosher via JTA) -- I had my first proper halva experience at The Halva Kingdom in the Machane Yehuda shuk in Jerusalem. I'd never really liked halva before that - the one or two times I had ...

The combination of tahini and halva candy marks these accidentally vegan cookies with an unmistakable sesame flavor. The halva candy melts while baking, forming a delicious, sweet sesame pool on top ...

Katie Gurvin plunges her aqua-gloved arms into the bowl of hot tahini-sugar-fluff mixture and begins to work her magic. Hints of vanilla, caramel and sesame waft up as the young halvah maker ...

When the poor Persian woodcutter Ali Baba overheard the leader of a band of thieves stand before a cave and say “open, sesame,” it changed his life forever. Those magic words unlocked unimaginable ...

Sally Schimko, founder of The Tahini Goddess, says, “If you told me 10 years ago that I was going to be launching a company in the food industry, I would have laughed.” But now, Schimko laughs at ...

If you didn’t grow up eating halva, the food item might be a mystery. But this simple confection is a treat to eat straight—it almost has the texture of fudge—or it can elevate other desserts, from ...