As I walked along a private road near where I live in Sebastopol, I saw a bunch of tender grape leaves on the other side of the fence. They glistened in the morning light, and I could see from their ...

Mireille Pavez reaches into the thick grape vine that grows in her garden, looking for just the right size leaves. “These are too big,” she says, tossing them on the ground. When she has found the ...

Dolmas, or stuffed grape leaves, have a long and rich history throughout the Mediterranean region. The word itself means “something stuffed” in Turkish. During the Ottoman period, they were served in ...

Having traveled from the hills of Lebanon to the United States in the late 1800s, my grandparents, John and Rose Bahry and other Lebanese families established a mercantile community in Donaldsonville.

Consider the underestimated grape leaf. Each year, grape vines are cut back, and turn brown and woody, then emerge vivaciously fresh with green shoots in the late spring. These vines grow aggressively ...

The cookbook author Diane Kochilas now sells grape leaves from Crete for dolmas and fish. By Florence Fabricant This year, Eastern Orthodox Easter comes on May 2. In a run-up to the celebration, there ...

It was a Wednesday in mid-May of last year, around lunchtime, when I received a text from my dad. It went like this: “Hi, Sweetheart. I was out in the garden and saw some large grape leaves, and I ...

Think of grape leaves as nature's spring roll wrapper. I mean, the Greeks certainly did. So too did the Persians, the Turks, the Lebanese, the Egyptians, the Romanians, the Armenians, even the ...