Here & Now resident chef Kathy Gunst is celebrating pear season with recipes for poached pears, pear cake and pear salad. She brings samples for host Robin Young to taste. Apples get all the attention ...

What every fruit crisp needs is more crisp. Also pears. Apples are nice, but pears are pleasure. When you bite into a perfectly ripe one, you work your jaws just enough to fully enjoy the reward of ...

It's easy to reach for apples in fall baking, but pears deserve your attention, too. They become soft and luscious, almost creamy, in the oven. Coupled with almond flour and brown butter, pears make a ...

If you have an abundance of ripe pears, freezing them is a practical way to preserve their sweetness and flavor. Instead of letting them go to waste, freezing allows you to enjoy them later in ...

Most marketing executives would kill for the kind of free advertising pear growers receive. Every year millions of Christmas carolers name-drop that fruit over and over and over. First published in ...