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 ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Want candy that’s good for you? Consider halva. Made primarily from sesame ...

"My passion for halvah (the sesame-seed candy) is no secret. I love its crunchy, gritty, nutty flavor. I first started eating it in Paris at the pâtisseries orientales: the Middle Eastern sweet shops ...

There’s an art and a science to making halvah, says Richard Radutzky, president of the 118-year-old candy company Joyva. Some steps in making the sesame-based confection are nearly impossible to ...

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 ...

Tahini — a paste made from ground sesame seeds — is not just synonymous with garlicky hummus or fiery cold noodles to people living in a large section of the world. That's because it's also the ...

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 chef Danielle Oron was growing up in the New Jersey suburbs, she knew that her Israeli family’s habits of dousing vanilla ice cream with tahini and spreading halvah on toast would be considered ...