Today’s column arose from a Facebook conversation with a friend who was hanging out in some of my favorite old stomping grounds in England. At one point she posted that she’d gone to a pub for a ...

So this Christmas, I decided to make a traditional English Yuletide dinner with an equally traditional but non-trifle Yuletide dessert, mincemeat pie. Don’t freak out. Mincemeat pie is made by stewing ...