Serve this with roast pork, duck, turkey or lamb. It makes a great Thanksgiving side, too.

Unfortunately, my first memory of cloves is associated with excruciating pain. I must have been about 10, with a horrid toothache. My father wrapped two cloves in some cotton and told me to bite on ...

My Christmas fantasy always involves dispensing with gifts, stopping the music and replanting all those doomed trees. But there’s no way I would pass up baking cookies with ginger, doctoring eggnog ...