Chef B.J. Chester-Tamayo shares her go-to recipe for the perfect pie crust and uses it as the base for her signature pecan and buttermilk pies.

Growing up in the South, pecan pie was always the crown jewel of our holiday dessert table. But one Thanksgiving, when pecans were particularly expensive, my grandmother surprised us all with what ...

Years ago, I worked in a restaurant that had a hard rule: If it didn’t come from within 50 miles of our kitchen, we didn’t serve it. This, of course, created some obstacles — the South isn ...

1 cup dark corn syrup 3 large eggs, beaten 5 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar 1⁄4 cup bourbon 2 Tbsp all-purpose flour ...

Preparation 1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. 2. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar and salt and mix well to combine. Cut in the cold butter using a pastry cutter or your fingers until the ...

We found the recipe, Southern-style pecan macaroons, in Matzo Ball Gumbo, a cookbook by Marcie Cohen Ferris. A professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ...

Pecan pie is over 100 years old This dessert is probably older than your grandparents. According to Wikipedia, the first found publication of a pecan custard pie recipe was in a late-1800s magazine.

When a pecan pie recipe began adorning bottles of Karo, it planted a seed in the brains of 1900s kitchen-dwellers. That seed sprouted into profits for the corn syrup company, and a new tradition ...