In Northern Italy, you'll often find folks wrapping up a nice dinner with something like poached pears with amaretto. And ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For cooking, pears may be poached whole in a light sugar syrup; they’re excellent cooked in tarts, pies, or cobblers, or made into sorbets or ices. Cranberries, another winter fruit, are native to ...

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 ...