Pie Bird
In the past I’ve always vented my pies by slashing them, but I like this pie bird, which my sister gave me for Christmas. Our Liberty apples, stored in an unheated bedroom, are a little shriveled but...
View ArticlePommé: Breton Apple Butter
I first learned of this traditional preserve of Brittany from a travel guide. In our subsequent trip to Brittany, last spring, my family and I searched the grocery stores and gift shops for pommé. Some...
View ArticleA Quick Wintertime Refrigerator Relish
What can you do with a few beets, some slowly shriveling apples from last fall’s harvest, and an ever-expanding patch of horseradish? Inspired by a traditional beet-horseradish relish from Russia and a...
View ArticleToshiba Apples
In Marina Lewychka’s Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, an old Ukrainian war refugee, lonely in his English cottage since his wife’s death, refuses to heat his sitting room, because that’s where...
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