A common way to close a holiday feast is with one — or more — delicious fruit pies for dessert. But you can't just pile a bunch of cranberries on top of raw dough and throw it in the oven, unless you ...

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 ...