Inspired by the Pilot’s dream team of bread bakers, features editor Jim Haag set out to win his own blue ribbon at the State Fair of Virginia. He chose lemon chess pie, one of the less competitive ...

The Buttermilk Chess Pie at Husk. Sugar, eggs, flour and butter. Just four ingredients make up a traditional chess pie, yet there are thousands of recipes and variations. Lisa Donovan is the pastry ...

It’s the dead of winter, so it seems like a good time to discuss “desperation pie.” That’s a term I learned about earlier this year as I perused the fetching new “The Hoosier Mama Book of Pie: Recipes ...

Patty Diez is the associate director of network development at Eater, Punch, and Thrillist, where she serves as a key connector between the sales and editorial teams to create timely opportunities, ...

Celebrate the holidays with these recipes courtesy of New York Times Cooking, specially chosen for "Sunday Morning" viewers. We are pleased to share Yewande Komolafe's Lemon Buttermilk Chess Pie With ...

To me, chess pie is an Oklahoma pie with definite Southern accents. For NPR's recent pie contest, I started with my mother's family recipe for Lemon Chess Pie — with a variation inspired by my Aunt ...

When Sara Foster was growing up in Tennessee, Sunday lunches meant two things: gathering around the dining room table in her granny Foster’s kitchen and homemade pie. Over the last two decades, Foster ...

Susan Crandall is an award-winning women's fiction, suspense, romance and mystery author. Her first book, Back Roads, won the RITA award for best first book, as well as two National Reader's Choice ...

• Lucy Wiley e-mailed seeking a recipe for chess pie, a classic Southern dessert that is traditionally thickened with fine cornmeal. Several readers responded. I tested two recipes. Ann Criswell, the ...