Thanksgiving Food 911: 3 Important Tips to Save Your Sanity

At its best, Thanksgiving is a day to surround oneself with the people one cares for the most as well as to feel gratitude for the bounty of this year and the promise of the next. Unfortunately, with all the culinary...

Get Thanksgiving Advice and Last Minute Help Online

For years, millions of harried Thanksgiving cooks have learned to depend on Butterball's Turkey Talk-Line for last minute advice (and even meal rescue). This year, Butterball's free service is going high tech, with...

Holiday Cooking: Learning to Trust Yourself in the Kitchen

With Thanksgiving and the holiday season approaching, many of us are afraid to truly trust ourselves in the kitchen. Is it because we’re afraid to fall flat on our faces, if we combine the wrong ingredients or...

Eat your Leftovers, the First Step on Going from Consumed to Thrifty?

Ronald Wilcox, the author of What happened to Thrift? was a guest of the Takeaway on November 17 as part of their Debtor Nation series.Basic changes in going from Consumed to Thrifty are plain and simple as he reminds us in Eat your Leftovers. My paternal grandfather was...

Grilling Up a Classic N'awlins Po Boy

While to many, grills are merely an excuse to invite friends and family over for some overcooked burgers and hot dogs, the recent rise in outdoor cooking shows and popularity of grilling and barbeque contests has...

Take a Virtual Food Lover’s Trip Around the World: 24 Blogs Celebrate Local...

Recently, the folks at Foodbuzz have helped coordinate their second series of blog posts featuring two dozen of their foodie members simultaneously celebrating some of the best regional and local foods throughout the...

How to Make a Barack Obama Hot Dog

Today is a day of great joy for many, and disappointment for others. But whichever way you voted, give yourself a pat on the back for helping to jump start American democracy by participating in what may well be the...

Eat Like a President: 50+ White House Recipes You Can Enjoy

As Election Day approaches and those in the U.S. prepare to vote (after having a nice breakfast of course!), we thought it would be nice to share some recipes we’ve come across from the hard cooking folks at the...

Budgets Squeezed, Some Families Bypass Organics

According to this recent New York Times story:""Whole Foods Market, a showcase for the natural and organic industries, is struggling through the toughest stretch in its history. And the organic industry is starting...

Halloween Recipe: Red Velvet Devil Dawg Sandwich Cookies

Red velvet cake is one of those Southern U.S. specialties that don’t often see the light of day anywhere else. If you’ve never had it before, a slice of red velvet layer cake could be, visually speaking, a bit...

First Female White House Chef Faces Uncertain Future, Tastes of New President

Depending on the outcome of the 2008 Presidential election, Cristeta Comerford, the first female executive chef in White House history may end up having to look for new employment. Since John F....

7 Pasta Shapes I Have Loved (Plus 1 That Made Me Gag)

Having been raised in an Italian household, pasta is, for me, more than a food. It’s a requirement. Sort of a Vitamin P, if you will. If I don’t eat it on a regular basis, I actually become nervous and unfocused, and I begin to wonder if I’m coming down with something....

Welcome to the 'Culinary Olympics'...Sugar Coated Lizard maybe?

No cheese lifting or fish throwing here, this is a serious competition.This year marked the 22nd edition of the Culinary Olympics .The event took place from October 19 to October 22 in Erfurt, Germany (near Frankfurt).Some 1600 cooks from 50 nations participated.If I got my...

5 Good Reasons You Should Encourage Your Kids to Cook at an Early Age

News article after article in the news shares grim statistics about the widening waistlines and related health problems of today’s youth. Could one of the best (and most rewarding) remedies for these serious...

The World of Competition BBQ

While the weather in the Northeast takes a turn towards Fall, my love of outdoor cooking still finds me on the road competing in various BBQ events across the country. Here's a quick video I took at a recent...

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