These chocolate-pecan shortbread bars combine a tender cookie base and a rich pecan–bittersweet chocolate topping for soft and fudgy bars that slice neatly.

This classic dessert always hits, any way you make it.

Once, I gave my former Valentine a box of chocolate shortbread tied up with a red ribbon, and a big, heartfelt smile. It wasn’t a hit. The simple, crisp cookies weren’t the gooey brownies he was ...

If you were dining at the home of an aspiring Los Angeles hostess in 1930, you might have been served smoked salmon appetizers (strips of salmon rolled “around a midget sweet pickle in the form of a ...

OPB’s “Superabundant” explores the stories behind the foods of the Pacific Northwest with videos, articles and this weekly newsletter. Every week, Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary ...