As a little girl in Morroco, Fatiha Soufan said she remembers spending her school vacations in the kitchen, baking recipes from French cooking magazines. “I come from a big family, and my aunt, after ...

For pastry chefs Richard Akers-Barrows and Maura Kilpatrick, baking is about imagination. Kilpatrick didn’t consider specializing in Middle Eastern pastry until she worked at a Middle Eastern ...