LOS ANGELES — Profanity Jam’s name has a double meaning. Mary Brockmeyer, founder of the startup manufacturer of habanero pepper-based jellies, has a history of “salty language,” according to the ...

Before you make your next PB&J, add some jelly on toast or plop a spoonful of peanut butter into your oatmeal, you might want to consider if one is a "better" spread to reach for than the other.

This is the last installment of “L.A. in a Jar,” cooking columnist Ben Mims’ four-part series on preserving fruit at home. The first fruit preserve I ever ate was muscadine jelly. A woman in my small ...