For variety, charm, oddity and rugged urban beauty, there is nothing in New York like eating and drinking your way across Red Hook.

For the Nuns of New Skete, a simple, pious life; for their customers, rich, tempting cheesecakes.

This Irish-American version of soda bread is sweet, studded with raisins and scented with caraway.

Puffy, sweet buns summon teenage days shopping in Old San Juan, and the treats savored afterward.

New Orleans, where bakery loyalties run deep, has become a laboratory for desserts — especially when it comes to the popular king cake and its many variations.

Call them brownie brittle, crisps or crunch, these bite-size snacks are right for nibbling.

A bakery, Bien Cuit, introduced in Brooklyn a year and a half ago, now has a satellite store opening in the West Village in Manhattan.

Melissa Clark chose to make 13 of the nearly 200 recipes that readers sent her, then picked 3 favorites to publish.

Cooking studios and bakeries in New Jersey offer courses in which cooks of all ages and skill levels can come together and, hours later, walk out with holiday treats.

“Baking for Friends” includes recipes for chocolate shortbread and earthy Guinness brownies.