Revered across East Asia and once foraged in the American South, the persimmon is less a fruit than a parable—bitter when rushed, exquisite when trusted. Its rich mythology meets modern indulgence in a recipe that pairs its sweetness with the velvet hush of brie.

Fannie Farmer brought standardization to the American kitchen, but her cookbooks offer more than measurements, they are blueprints for dignity and domestic authorship. This recipe for Eggs à la Suisse Toast is a quiet homage to her 1896 original: simple, exacting, and deeply comforting.

In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the true haunting begins not in the woods but at the table, where roasted fowls and pumpkin pie seduce more deeply than any phantom. These buckwheat pumpkin slapjacks with treacle honor that harvest excess, with a whisper of foreboding in every syruped bite.