Not long ago, I had a craving for a prune Danish. There was a time when dried-plum pastry was a special-occasion favorite, a mainstay of the bagel-and-lox spreads of my youth. Prune was my favorite ...

An evening of Jackie Mason comedy is like watching a jazz master tackle standards. You know the tunes by heart, but if you're lucky, he'll offer you some interesting riffs along the way. "Prune Danish ...

In an increasingly uncertain world, in which change is not necessarily for the good, it's natural to turn for comfort to things that give evidence of life's consistency. Maybe this is why Jackie Mason ...

Prune Danish: Always Fresh–Never Stale, at the Shubert Theatre. The oldest of old school comics, Jackie Mason’s been kicking around since before the early 60s. At that point what had been a meteoric ...

I cheered out loud when, in February, the New York Times Magazine devoted its food page to prunes, including a recipe for prune-almond tart. If pressed to name my three all-time favorite foods, prune ...

Jackie Mason's "Prune Danish" routine comes off as a flying-by-the-seat-of-his-pants, stream-of-consciousness spiel: The guy's presentation is so artful that it's impossible to know how much he's ...

MANASSAS, Virginia—You can’t get a good sour pickle in New York anymore. Not that I would know, my parents tell me. While it’s probably a good thing that abject poverty and infectious disease are no ...