04/14/2026
It’s National Pecan Day!
And it’s hard not to recycle photos from past years…
Eating my grandmother’s pecan pie as a child was the beginning of an obsession for me — Tweaking and perfecting her recipe with the addition of fresh peaches and peach brandy was a joy (find the recipe in The Hachland Hill Cookbook).
I was schooled in classic southern pecan applications by Miss Ruth Williams, my grandmother’s steadfast employee at Hachland Hill for 60+ years. Ruth was a confidant to her, and second grandmother/mentor to me.
I swap the almonds for pecans when I do bear claws now too, because when in Tennessee 🐻