When Sara Foster was growing up in Tennessee, Sunday lunches meant two things: gathering around the dining room table in her granny Foster’s kitchen and homemade pie. Over the last two decades, Foster ...

• Lucy Wiley e-mailed seeking a recipe for chess pie, a classic Southern dessert that is traditionally thickened with fine cornmeal. Several readers responded. I tested two recipes. Ann Criswell, the ...

WRAL anchor Renee Chou and her daughter, Elsa, discovered an easy, tasty recipe to make at home - the Angus Barn's famous Chocolate Chess Pie! Melt butter and chocolate. Mix with other ingredients ...

When I married my husband five years ago, little did I know I would gain such an amazing family with quite a few talented cooks. My husband’s family has a tradition of gathering every year for either ...

Lemon Cheese Pie gets its tang from fresh lemon juice and zest. (Food styling Judy Walker/Photo by Dinah Rogers, NOLA.com The Times-Picayune) Last weekend I was busy making several chess pies to serve ...

Betsy Foster Matthews holds up a chocolate chess pie at P's & Q's on Magazine Street on Nov. 14, 2013. (Julia Kumari Drapkin, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) Betsy Foster Matthews of P's and Q's (Pies ...

To me, chess pie is an Oklahoma pie with definite Southern accents. For NPR's recent pie contest, I started with my mother's family recipe for Lemon Chess Pie — with a variation inspired by my Aunt ...

Reader Dean Hollerman sent in two of his favorite recipes for chess pie. I made my first chess pie (a lemon chess) this past December and loved it. So, I share this with you. It is really very easy.

The chocolate chess pie is a classic menu item at the Angus Barn in Raleigh. The recipe has been tweaked over the years. Juli Leonard [email protected] Everyone evolves as a cook. What I ...

Chess pies are a Southern favorite, but no one is sure where they got their name. In Ken Haedrich’s “Pie” cookbook (2004, Harvard Common Press), he quotes from John Egerton’s 1987 book “Southern Food.