Dried apples make a delicious snack all by themselves, but reconstituting them within a dessert brings out the tannins and sugars. And the classic showcase for the fruit is the apple stack cake, generally believed to have first emerged in the mountains of Kentucky.

Today’s holiday craft beers are descendants of winter beers made in Scandinavia and elsewhere in Northern Europe to celebrate the pagan holiday known in English as Yule.

Once upon a time a trip to the butcher case meant a choice between sirloin or strip streak, chuck roast or round. Today it’s not so simple.

The Poinsett Bridge looms in the forest like something medieval. You half expect to find a troll lurking under its gothic arch.


Roasted, steamed, pickled, chopped into relish, or—as she is sharing here—rendered into crispy chips, Ashley English takes beets any way she can get them.