Summertime is pie time. Starting with June strawberries, steady streams of fruit, just begging to become pies, crowd around lucky northern Michiganders. My thickener of choice for fruit pies is ...

Welcome again to Sunday Brunch, with notes and ideas from the lighter side of the menu. Today is National Tapioca Day, a day to celebrate this starchy substance that has been long been used as ...

It did not occur to me that Mary Ely's request for tapioca-thickened French oven stew and Claire Crawford's request for a dropped-dough nectarine cobbler would have much in common. But Ely's ...

Maybe it’s all that boba that’s been floating around in frothy milk teas. Or maybe it’s a nod to nostalgia and the creamy tapioca pudding of childhood memories. Maybe it’s a little of both. Whatever ...