In 1907, a Chicago man was arrested for shooting his wife in the head. A pie, he said, made him do itmincemeat pie. In those days, newspapers praised the blubbery dish, packed with a weeks-old ...

In an era of tofu ice cream and veggie burgers, mincemeat pie has an image problem. If only it were called apple-raisin pie, which is what it tastes like. How did apple and pumpkin become the default ...

Amid the holiday season, Thanksgiving in my family, present and past, always requires a mincemeat pie. Almost as important as stuffed turkey, cranberry sauce, Waldorf salad and a pumpkin pie is mince ...

Mincemeat pie isn’t what it used to be. The festive pastries were a Christmas staple in England starting around the 12th century. In the Middle Ages, “it would have been quite the main course,” Diane ...

The holidays in the United Kingdom mean unique flavors in dishes you might not find on your table in the United States. Take, for example, the mincemeat pie, which-in case you weren't sure-does not ...

That holiday season, as my preschooler approached winter break, it dawned on me that we hadn’t yet made cookies for Christmas. I settled in on our apartment floor and sifted through my collection of ...