6 firm, ripe pears, such as Comice 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar 3 tablespoons apple juice ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon ground ginger 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves ...

SEATTLE — Too many pears is a happy problem to have. At a sad time recently, someone sent a box of bereavement pears, not something to belabor here except to say that the gift — with one pear, ...

If baking is your thing, the holidays are all about the dessert. But for the rest of us, dessert is sometimes the unfortunate victim of the 24-hour clock. There is just never enough time to get it all ...