A typical French apple tart boasts a custard and cake-like shell for the fruit. However, in the 21st century many chefs take another route and forgo the heavy filling and cake. Instead, a simple pie ...

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Happy Pi Day! We're celebrating by sharing Gasia Mikaelian's favorite free-form pie recipe with you (aka a French Tart)! Read Gasia’s intro and try the pie/tart recipe below! I LOVE making pie! I ...

From Mark Bitterman’s “Salt Block Cooking” (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2013), this tart recipe suggests topping with crumbled blue cheese for a tangy finish. However, I used goat cheese for a creamy ...

Over the summer, I had an opportunity to visit Paris, and there I stumbled on a bakery with a line of Parisians out the door called Le Pain Retrouvé. It had no sign outside, and inside there was ...

In October, I flew to Paris to visit a friend living there. We were there to do research in Normandy for her next book and spent days driving around the French countryside — eating moules frites in ...