I'll be jumping off here shortly in favor of family time, the creation of my second Bûche de Nöel of the season, and a "Throug...

I'm a person who has difficulty with choices. Growing up, my family called me "yes/no girl" and my astrological chart, cas...

One of the reasons I'm so drawn to pie is because it demands social gathering. A pie is a communal dish, meant to be sliced and share...

In a brief scene in Les Blank's 1983 documentary Sprout Wings and Fly, on Surry County, North Carolina fiddler Tommy Jarrell , Ja...

 I've advocated frequently on this blog for baking with fresh squash rather than pumpkin in "pumpkin" pie. I've also u...

Two years ago, nearing the end of October, my friend  Jake Hoffman  sent me a recipe for grape pie. Included was a story. When Jake's...

As the New Yorker informed us all last month, figs are pretty goth. The fruit, which is actually an inverted flower, has developed a sy...