Here we are, sliding toward Thanksgiving — a holiday centered around eating and being grateful and joining with family around the table. It’s a beautiful holiday, really, and it’s never really about ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Making pie crust isn’t hard, but it can be daunting. I can help. I come from a long line of pie ladies, and we’ve made thousands of crusts, both flaky and ...

Today, pre-Thanksgiving hysteria moves from the bird to the dessert. In The Times, Melissa Clark obsessively tests pie crust methods to conclude, at least for now, that a little duck fat makes the ...

Here we are, sliding toward Thanksgiving — a holiday centered around eating and being grateful and joining with family around the table. It’s a beautiful holiday, really, and it’s never really about ...

The secret to making a perfect pie crust? Practice. I cannot promise you that if you follow my instructions you will yield a perfect pie pastry on your first try. But try it once, twice, maybe three ...

While butter and oil are familiar kitchen staples for most of us, shortening is something of a mystery for many home cooks. Technically, the word shortening can be used to describe any type of fat ...

Tubs of Crisco vegetable shortening on grocery store shelf - PJ McDonnell/Shutterstock While butter and oil are familiar kitchen staples for most of us, shortening is something of a mystery for many ...