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For her final column, Dorie Greenspan shares how a recipe misstep led to perfectly imperfect chocolate thumbprint cookies. I love the famous story of Julia Child's dropping a hunk of [...]

Paris's Left Bank is brimming with sweets, including the financiers that inspired this elegant and easygoing dessert. For the past 25 years, my husband, Michael, and I have lived in [...]

Dorie Greenspan's poppy-seed cake is a call back to her childhood and shops that are mostly gone. My mother was convinced that baking genes skipped generations. After all, her mother [...]

This festive cookie cake is a cross an American chocolate-chip cookie and an elegant Parisian treat. On Dec. 11, my husband and I will fly to Paris, reviving a holiday [...]

Dorie Greenspan makes a savory tart with apple, sweet potato, cheese and a touch of chile pepper. A few weeks ago, when I called Krissy Scommegna, the 32-year-old owner of [...]

Sweet enough to be called cake but savory enough to be as good with a slice of Cheddar as it is with the gloss of warm jam spread over its [...]

It's the simplest recipe: a little bit braised and a little bit roasted in a covered Dutch oven. Sometime in my early 20s, I went to Paris to strengthen my [...]

A first birthday calls for these small tender confections, just right for chubby baby hands. Almost a year ago, Gemma Tao Greenspan was born, and I became a grandmother. I [...]

The recipe for oeuf mayo is strikingly simple, which means the details really matter. In the 1980s, my husband, Michael, and I bought a small house in eastern Connecticut and [...]

This gteau d'Hélène recipe from the 1970s is just as elegant and delicious today as it was decades ago. No one has ever complimented me on my decisiveness. It takes [...]

A serendipitous trip in the Basque Country led Dorie Greenspan to this irresistible dessert. Fourteen or so months into Covid-times and more than 450 days since we left our home [...]

A 117-year-old nun in France made me think it might be. When I read that Sister André celebrated her 117th birthday in the South of France, I clapped for joy. [...]

By the time we moved to Paris in the late '90s, I felt comfortable there. I'd visited dozens of times, published stories about the city's food and restaurants and even [...]

I knew that New Year's Eve 2020 would be different; still, I never thought I would be planning to bake a cake. None of my last 20 or so New [...]

At the start of the pandemic, as we all made plans to stay put, a friend said, ''How I wish I could be in Three Pines.'' I understood. Three Pines [...]

It was early days in the ''Baking With Julia'' project. Julia was the beloved cookbook author and television pioneer Julia Child, and the project was a television series and cookbook. [...]

Being more dreamer than planner, I was proud of myself when, a few years ago, I managed to put together an overnight getaway with my husband, Michael, to the Normandy [...]

Because my husband, Michael, and I lived in the same neighborhood in Brooklyn before we met, we share memories that go back to our childhoods. We remember when there was [...]

I promised myself that I'd read ''War and Peace'' during this long period of confinement. But I didn't. Just as I didn't read it the last time I promised myself [...]

Every afternoon, I get a ping on my computer announcing the number of days since my hard drive was backed up in Paris, where I live part time. That ping [...]

And so now we are four: On March 17, days after New York City ''paused,'' our son, Joshua, and daughter-in-law, Linling, came to live with us in our house in [...]

In Paris this winter, with the weather seesawing between frigid and mild, I found myself baking with apples. I made pandowdy, twice. I made a few apple crisps, one with [...]

I can't remember the name of the restaurant, or when I had this meal, which dates it to at least before smartphones and Instagram. I'm pretty sure the chef was [...]

''Coffee and'' was an expression I heard all the time as a kid. From early morning until late in the afternoon, the aroma that filled the kitchen, wafted through the [...]

Every New Year's Eve, Dorie Greenspan invites a hodgepodge group of old and new friends for a perfect French fete, complete with oysters, gougeres, and huge bottles of champagne by [...]

Early in my baking education, I bought a tinned-metal plaque with a dozen shell-shaped indentations. It was an indulgent purchase, since the pan was designed expressly to make just one [...]

I don't see how it's possible to rack up frequent-flier points without racking up mishaps too. There will inevitably be delayed flights, bad meals, drivers who take the long way [...]

A few years ago, I got an email from the cookbook site Eat Your Books, saying that it had indexed more than 3,000 of my recipes. I had no idea [...]

For one brief and mostly glorious moment in 2013, my son, Joshua, and I had a cookie business. We had a kitchen that was as compact as a toy boat's [...]

Tumble-Jumble Strawberry Tart Time: 45 minutes, plus chilling and cooling For the crust: 1½ cups/200 grams all-purpose flour âû cup/40 grams confectioners' sugar 2 tablespoons granulated sugar ¼ teaspoon fine [...]

Among the myriad things that I treasure about baking are the eureka moments, the times when I make something differently and it not only works but becomes part of my [...]

For about 30 years, I've been tacking pictures, memos, small talismans, odd cards and clippings to the cork wall behind my desk. Among the mementos are a recipe for my [...]

Early into the first meal I had with Julia Child, she asked me if I'd ever seen the ''Saturday Night Live'' episode in which Dan Aykroyd imitated her. ''I'm sure [...]

It takes me forever to get anywhere in Paris. It's not the traffic, or the strikes -- which are almost as reliable as the church bells tolling the hours -- [...]

When I was starting out, teaching myself to cook and bake and trying to make a career in food, I would corner every chef who would give me a minute [...]

The recipe for the cake that knocked me off my breakfast routine is the one that got away. I should have tried to wangle it after the first time I [...]

Last month, when I returned from a trip to China, I knew for sure that it would take me about 12 days to recover from having spent time in a [...]

When I called my son, Joshua, on his birthday last month, his first words were, ''You're a minute early!'' And I was. But that was the only unpredictable part of [...]

When my chin is down, my eyes are closed and my hands are cupped over my ears, it's a sure sign that I'm tasting. I know how odd I look, [...]

Sometime during the first year that I was married, when I was teaching myself to cook, I enrolled in a cake-decorating class. A course on how not to turn steaks [...]

Even though I bake almost daily, when I'm in Paris there are a few sweets I go straight to the supermarket to buy. One of those, Fossier's biscuits roses -- [...]

Our son was still only crawling when Marie-Cécile, a young Frenchwoman, became his babysitter. That she stayed with us for years explains why he has a near-perfect French accent and [...]

I recently told our son that we were thinking of moving across the Seine. His response: What about your favorite cafe? What about Twiggy, the cheese- monger? Juan, the caviste? [...]

Winter in Paris always surprises me. From one January to the next, I forget how very short the days are, how damp the air is, how often it seems we're [...]

There's a picture that I keep in the left-hand corner of my computer screen, of me and my son, Joshua, who is now grown, baking together years ago. It shows [...]