Unless you’re a professional pastry chef, you probably make just a couple of pies a year — at most. As we head into peak ...

As the late writer Nora Ephron once said, “There’s no point in making pie crust from scratch.” While we can’t entirely agree ...

Albanian Byrek is a savory phyllo pie, a culinary staple of Albanian cuisine. Imagine a flaky, golden crust wrapped around a variety of delectable fillings, each bite bursting with flavor and texture.

If you’d like, remove the stems from a few fresh bay leaves and grind them in a spice grinder or food processor, then rub them through a fine sieve and sprinkle the top of the pie with the dust.

The following is a transcription of the video: Claudia Romeo: Dusting dough like this is the key to getting authentic Greek phyllo pastry incredibly thin. But this is only one of the challenges of ...