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 ...

Celebration Pie, a chess pie made with buttermilk and chestnut flour. (Tom McCorkle for The Washington Post) In 19th century Alabama, as one of many tales goes, a freed slave made a living selling ...