Have you visited American Food Roots yet? If not you should (and the Washington Post thinks so too). It’s a superb new food site by ...

Happy New Year! Hope you rang in your lucky 13 year with friends and fun a little bit of debauchery. We brought ours in with all of tha...

My mom shared this story and recipe from our Christmas morning brunch--Quiche Lorraine. For a change from my usual habits, the only thing...

On several occasions when folks have learned that I write about food, they've exclaimed, "You're the pimento cheese girl!...

Merry Christmas, one and all! For the second year in a row, a Jack Horner Christmas pie post. Though this common nursery rhyme was f...

I have fond childhood memories of music parties at our old Victorian house. My dad played in a band that would rehearse in our backyard, ...

I'm back home again in Indiana. I got in last night to my family jumping up and down (mostly mom), a blazing fire in the fireplace and...

A few weeks ago, when I posted the recipe for speculoos pie (made with speculoos cookie butter), my friend, the cookbook author and Zenc...

I know that winter is a-coming in, Christmas is fast approaching, and tomorrow is the last day of Hanukkah, but I want to continue the trad...

I'm thrilled to have this post about the 6th Annual Blackburg, Virginia Pie Auction from my friend  Sally Anne Morgan , an artist, ...

I was very excited when the writers of PBS Food asked if I would contribute a piece. All those years developing my part- Julia Child pa...

It seems that I've been blessed with really wonderful away-from-home Thanksgivings. There was two years ago at the Saltsman's ...

Our Pie Almanac Release Party last night at Ginger Root  was SO. MUCH. FUN!  Except for one film shot of Diego (pictured in the Specul...

The books are here!!! And we're having a party to celebrate! Local DC friends, Elizabeth and I hope to see you tonight at Ginger Roo...

Though it's not officially winter yet, there are sure signs that it's here. The darkness sets in by the late afternoon, I...