My Aunt Marilyn and Uncle Timothy Mizzell have a fruitful tree in their yard that plentifully bears "cooking" pears. Every fall the tree is so full the branches sag in surrender. They invite friends ...

A partridge wishes it were in a pear tree with these cookies. A partridge in a pear tree may be the final gift sung in the "12 Days of Christmas," but it's also our final cookie of the "Good Morning ...

Autumn brings a new harvest of pears to market. This luscious fruit is somewhat overlooked, but that wasn't always the case. In England, an estimated 700 varieties of pear were grown during the 18th ...

I was pleasantly surprised this past week by readers’ emails in which they expressed their hopes for pear recipes. “I clipped your column on apple recipes back at the end of September, and I keep ...

To find the best pears look for ones that give a little when pressed at their neck and have a slight floral fragrance. Most people don’t know that pears actually ripen off the tree and if they’re hard ...

Most marketing executives would kill for the kind of free advertising pear growers receive. Every year millions of Christmas carolers name-drop that fruit over and over and over. First published in ...

Like many consumers during the pandemic, I have been shopping for groceries online in order to avoid crowds at my supermarket . I recently ordered three pears, but much to my surprise I received three ...

Apples tend to get most of the love this time of year, but fall also is prime time for a variety of pears. My favorites are Bosc and Anjou pears, both of which are firm and sweet, and when sliced on ...