I first tasted a slice of chess pie while sitting on the side of the road in middle Tennessee. Well, almost the side of the road. A fellow Californian friend and I made the trek to Leiper's Fork to ...

Some Southern sweets -- pecan pie, pralines, red velvet cake -- are well-loved throughout the country. As someone who was born and raised in southern Indiana, I have fond memories of a dessert that ...

Picture the South forty years ago. Families gathered around dinner tables where dishes didn't need Instagram filters to ...

With a flaky pie crust, gooey, buttery, and a sweet filling, and minimal ingredients — Southern chess pie is an American treat! It’s a unique dessert option that will have the entire table begging for ...

In the introduction to her new cookbook, Cheryl Day writes: “This book would not have been possible without the millions of enslaved laborers who worked in the fields, plantations, and kitchens of the ...

Dena Wruble and Tracy Rapp are the editors of Simply Southern With a Dash of Kosher Soul. Chess pie is one of the South’s great contributions to the culinary arts. One folk story asserts that it was ...

Our readers shared their favorite Thanksgiving sweets, from pumpkin pie to cream cheese pound cake to apple pie. Ahead, the ...

Once cooled, the pie needs to be chilled in order to set. This is a feature not a bug. It means you can make the pie ahead of ...

Celebrate the holidays with these recipes courtesy of New York Times Cooking, specially chosen for "Sunday Morning" viewers. We are pleased to share Yewande Komolafe's Lemon Buttermilk Chess Pie With ...