Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

Last night at the witching hour I couldn’t sleep so I decided to read a while about Halloween foods. I was surprised to learn about soul cakes. Legend has it that they were the ancestors to our ...

Forget the Reese's Pieces and Tootsie Rolls: This year, appease the malevolent spirits roaming the earth on All Souls' Eve with soul cakes. T.... Even at its most lighthearted, Halloween has a chilly ...

Susan Sinagola sheds light on the practice of souling, while Martin Bates has found a useful addition to his teatime repertoire I was delighted to read your article on soul cakes (English Heritage ...

Did you make your soul cake for tonight? Until this year, I had no idea that Christmas Eve was the time for Souling. If we lived in ancient Britain, we would have baked our soul cakes a couple of ...

You can find yourself lost in a mass of sugar skulls and jelly snakes at Halloween, but here is a traditional recipe for the cakes that may well have been the inspiration for trick or treating. My ...

Thirteen locations will revive medieval tradition that predated modern rituals It’s trick or treat with a twist: no tricks, just the possible release of souls from their purgatory accompanied by a ...

T. Susan Chang is a New England-based freelance writer who recently served as a former Kellogg Food and Society Policy Fellow. She also is the Boston Globe's regular cookbook reviewer, and her ...