[Photo: Robin Bellinger] In casting about for a fruit salad that outshines your typical melon-grape-sad-strawberry combination, I came across this fall fruit compote in Chez Panisse Desserts. It's awfully sweet, and so maybe not quite right to serve as fruit... More

[Photographs: Carolyn Cope] One of the happier symptoms of this chronic condition we call adulthood is the ability to see beauty in imperfection. Maybe it's just nature's way of steeling us to continue looking in the mirror morning after morning,... More

This recipe is great as a topping over grilled pound cake, which you can read about here.... More

[Robyn Lee] North Carolina-based mystery author Margaret Maron just published her twenty-fifth title, Sand Sharks. Maron, like her protagonist Judge Deborah Knott, grew up working on a farm and did her fair share of fruit-picking and jam-making. Even though she's... More

Some take the high road, and some take the low. But me, I like to walk somewhere in the middle. When figuring out how to "caramel" my apples from apple-picking, I knew I didn't want the sugar sheet wrap-on caramel,... More

This week's Cartoon Kitchen features Serious Eats' cartoonist in residence Larry Gonick's spin on poached peaches. —Ed Levine... More