On a recent cold and blustery morning, one of my sisters texted a recipe for egg custard pie. She'd started Thanksgiving preparations nearly two weeks early, baking the cornbread and boiling chicken ...

Even if rhubarb grew as fast and prolifically as zucchini, it would still be utterly impossible to have a sufficient supply always at the ready to make most, let alone all, of the rhubarb custard pies ...

When I saw Claire Saffitz’s recipe for a caramelized honey pumpkin pie in her cookbook Dessert Person, I knew I had to try it ...

After the turkey, stuffing and the rest of the Thanksgiving trimmings have been put away, it’s time for dessert, which is one of the most-comforting parts of the big holiday meal. For many people, ...

While pie on Thanksgiving is classic, this dump cake cuts down on time but not on flavor. After adding all the ingredients to ...

This week, I wrote about my favorite new dessert — my Big & Boozy Panna Cotta — which I’ve been making for dinner parties the past few weeks. Call it a lazy man’s custard, if you want, because I don’t ...

Last December, mathematician Shigeru Kondo announced that he had calculated pi to 12,100,000,000,050 digits. It's not even a beginning, of course, in calculating what stretches to infinity, but the ...

So a Minnesota researcher says that eating comfort food doesn’t really improve our mood, that we bounce back sooner or later no matter what we eat. OK, then let’s call banana cream pie a celebratory ...