I first tasted a slice of chess pie while sitting on the side of the road in middle Tennessee. Well, almost the side of the road. A fellow Californian friend and I made the trek to Leiper's Fork to ...

Some Southern sweets -- pecan pie, pralines, red velvet cake -- are well-loved throughout the country. As someone who was born and raised in southern Indiana, I have fond memories of a dessert that ...

In the 1980s, simple was for suckers, and decadence ruled supreme. There was a surge in dessert recipes with the name "mud" ...

In the introduction to her new cookbook, Cheryl Day writes: “This book would not have been possible without the millions of enslaved laborers who worked in the fields, plantations, and kitchens of the ...

Who doesn't love a good pie? I do believe a slice of pie can be the cure-all for any ailment. Chicken soup — step aside if you please. Right away, Southern Pies stuns you in its well-designed form — ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

With Christmas just around the corner, I can’t resist sharing one of my all-time favorites. This recipe goes back at least 30 years or more. Nina Eberhard opened her popular Pie Shop in the ...

Hoecakes Before cornbread as we know it today became a Southern staple, there were hoecakes. Southerners made these humble ...