Update, December 10, 2024: The Vermont Agency of Agriculture shut down the Bombardiers’ pie-making operation shortly after this story was published because the couple’s home kitchen was not licensed ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — French meat pie is not a typical fair food must-have. It's not fried, there's no powdered sugar and no cheese to be seen. Still Keith and Inna Gordon decided it was the perfect dish ...

The annual St. Elizabeth French meat pie project is underway in Ludlow with volunteers who hope to make 55,000 of the pies over 18 days. Here is a scene from the 2015 pie preparations. LUDLOW –Last ...

FALL RIVER — We call it “French meat pie,” but the word for it in French is “Tourtiere,” a name that came from the style of dish in which it was cooked. We know it as being made with ground pork or a ...

As a little girl in braids, I dreamed all year long about Christmas Eve and its twinkling lights and flickering Advent candles, the snap and crackle of a fire and the crinkle of wrapping paper, the ...

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If you happen to spend Christmas Eve in Canada — especially Quebec — you might be lucky enough to be invited to a festive dinner after midnight Mass. The feast is an old tradition from France called ...

A version of this story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2011. If you happen to spend Christmas Eve in Canada — especially Quebec — you might be lucky enough to be invited to a festive dinner ...