This May, my family all came home to Indiana to celebrate my grandmother's 85th birthday. We were sitting around the dining room ta...

The Joy of Cooking was one of the first cookbooks I learned to bake from growing up, so I was thrilled and rather honored when Megan S...

This morning, I went to church. It's something I rarely do, but today, Donna Schaper was up from the city and speaking at the one-...

In old-time music, Surry County, North Carolina is well-known for its distinctive regional variation of playing, often referred ...

Peaches in the summertime, apples in the fall/If I can't have the one I love, I won't have none at all . That's one of my f...

The next morning Angélique, Amédée's wife, was in the kitchen baking pies, assisted by Old Miss Chevalier. Between the mixing-board and ...

It's early September, and up in Vermont I know friends are feeling the start of fall. I mistook the cooler weather this week here in No...

Last night my friend Layne and I made a peach (with perhaps some nectarine mixed in) pie with fruit he froze last summer. We drained about 2...

Texas girl with a peach pie A while back (during the height of peach season) I made a peach pie for Stacy and Chris' going away part...

O n Saturday our dear friends Mandy and Greg had their marriage celebration at the Intervale. It was a beautiful, magical ceremony with smud...