FOR years, I was flummoxed by the idea of hard sauce. Why would anyone want to eat a sauce that you cut with a knife? Then I tried some. And I discovered that what the British call hard sauce is in ...

When I moved to New Orleans, I discovered that this was a city that — at least in terms of food — was a world to itself. Many of its foods had little in common with those of the South I grew up in.

Dear SOS: We read a poem called “Little Jack Horner” and in it was a Christmas pie. We want to know what is in a Christmas pie. Do you have a recipe for it? Thank you. Dear class: In England, plum pie ...