When I was younger we used to live in a red house just outside a small town in upstate New York. After we moved in my mother told me that it used to be a motel but had caught on fire and parts had been destroyed.

The secret to a good Mother’s Day? It’s all about the food. Five and six-year-olds at Ponsonby Primary School were hard at work yesterday decorating iced biscuits for their mums.

I enjoyed helping my mother cook, and remember when my sister and I made gingerbread from scratch. There was flower all over the kitchen, but we had a good time.

If talk of monsters is a bit much, tone it down with “The Gingerbread Pirates.” This is actually a Christmas book, but the story is great any time of year. A boy and his mother make pirate cut-out cookies for Santa to eat, but the boy keeps his …

Police trying to trace the mother of a newborn baby found dead behind a shop have released photos of the clothes he was wearing. The photographs show a blue-and-white striped long-sleeved top, a white Dunelm towel with a gingerbread man and heart …

When I was a child, one of my favorite memories is when my mother would set me next to her on the kitchen counter while she rolled dough. Not yet tall enough to see over the ledge on my own, I took delight in the new vantage point, feeling a bit like …

I vividly remember coming inside, taking off our wet corduroys, wool cable knit sweaters and socks and smelling the wood burning and my mother’s hot chocolate and gingerbread cookies. Here’s hoping for a snow day so I can take my boys to Central Park …

As a child, it always reminded me of a gingerbread house straight from the illustrated pages of a story book. To get to the house, you drove up a driveway that was very steep.

A quintessential cosy country retreat opened in 2005 by Alex Polizzi and her mother, Olga (sister of Rocco Forte), Hotel Endsleigh looks like one of those iced gingerbread houses all year round, so, as you can imagine, it comes into its own at …

An e-mail arrived from my mother in the days before Christmas asking if my husband, daughter and me make the gingerbread cookies that were a holiday tradition when I was a child. My mother, who gave up a promising career as a journalist to have …