A large cranberry tart, neatly cut into eight slices, with a side of cranberry sauce and pine tree needles scattered to the right. - Sstajic/Getty Images A common way to close a holiday feast is with ...

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 ...