If it's Fat Tuesday in Detroit, you will find bakery boxes piled high with icing-coated or sugar-dusted, deep-fried, fluffy doughnuts called paczki in plural or paczek in singular.

Just in time for Fat Tuesday, a local pie maker has concocted its own version of the paczek in the form of a pie.

This Tuesday and Wednesday, four holidays from different cultures and religions overlap in a rare calendar year.

Fat Tuesday is a festive day of gluttonous indulgence, reflecting the practice of eating rich, fatty foods on the last night before the long Christian season of Lent, which is marked by fasting and ab...