With a name like chess pie, one would think it got its name from some connection to the game, but the origins of this dessert ...

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 ...

Southern cuisine never goes out of style, but these old-school dishes have fallen out of fashion. We say it's high time we ...

Located in the foothills near the Smokies, Carver’s Orchard specializes in apple-based treats, and their pies are legendary.

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

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 ...

Huckleberry’s Zoe Nathan talks about her penchant for messy pies; Lisa Donovan of Husk Nashville details the charm of Southern chess pie and Aarti Sequeira of Aarti Party suggests making samosa hand ...

It turns out the classic cool and silky pie is a regular fixture on many Southern Thanksgiving tables, and we're all for it.