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Featured Articles
Beignets: The sweet taste of New Orleans
By Alison Ladman - Associated Press
It may look like a doughnut. It may be filled or glazed like a doughnut. It may even be cooked like a doughnut. But don’t call it a doughnut. Published February 16, 2012 Comments
Chefs please French palates with American sensibilities
By Jenny Barchfield - Associated Press
Paris, once regarded as the gastronomical center of the world, is looking to a cadre of young chefs from a country derided for its love of processed cheese — gasp, the United States — to help raise the bar. Published December 28, 2011 Comments
Holiday crab dish feeds a crowd
By Alison Ladman - Associated Press
Delicious often doesn’t cut it during the holidays. The dish you bring to your next holiday gathering needs to feed a crowd and be portable as well. Cue the casserole. Published December 15, 2011 Comments
Put a light touch on your Christmas brunch cocktail
By Michelle Locke - Associated Press
Christmas brunch can be a civilized way to celebrate the season, not as frantic as Christmas Eve or as fraught with familial tensions as Christmas dinner. Published December 15, 2011 Comments
It’s chestnut season in southern France
By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press
Forget summer and the seaside in the south of France. Instead, hit the back country in autumn and go on a treasure hunt for one of nature’s little beauties — the chestnut — a mahogany-colored jewel hidden in a prickly shell that falls from the treetops. Published November 24, 2011 Comments
Recent Articles
Miracle Rice slims jambalaya
By Rocco DiSpirito - Associated Press
Mardi Gras is the sort of celebration that can make every city in America want to be New Orleans. Between the parties and parades and all those rich foods, what's not to love? Published February 16, 2012 Comments
Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The FDA has won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh, raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington region, after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines, and he told his customers he'll shut his farm down altogether. Published February 13, 2012 Comments
Quick handmade chocolate bonbons anyone can make
By J.M. Hirsch - Associated Press
Attempting to make chocolate bonbons from scratch is enough to test anyone's love. Published February 9, 2012 Comments
Grilled, cider-simmered sausages perfect for fall
By Elizabeth Karmel - Associated Press
This recipe for hard-cider-soaked apple-sage sausages is perfect for a tailgate, football Sunday or fall festival. Published November 3, 2011 Comments
Spatchcock: Funny word for fast dinner
By J.M. Hirsch - Associated Press
While it sounds like something that should be X-rated, spatchcocking's really just a ridiculously simple and speedy way of roasting a whole chicken. Published October 20, 2011 Comments
Mushrooms and leeks enrich classic onion soup
By Alison Ladman - Associated Press
French onion soup is a classic well-suited for fall. The dark, rich broth and cheese-encrusted top are perfect for fending off a chilly evening. Published October 20, 2011 Comments
Handcrafted butter — easy, insanely good and so worth it
By Alison Ladman - Associated Press
Why go to the trouble of making butter at home? After all, they package it in neat in little sticks for us at the grocery store so we don't have to. Published October 6, 2011 Comments
Artisan food movement spreads to butter
By Michelle Locke - Associated Press
Remember when butter came in two varieties — salted and not? Published October 6, 2011 Comments
Spud fans rally to block school lunch rules
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
The potato will not be kicked out of the nation's school cafeterias without a fight. Published October 5, 2011 Comments
Oktoberfest beer flows for the first time in Alabama town
By Jay Reeves - Associated Press
With German roots and Bible Belt values, the north Alabama town of Cullman marked Oktoberfest for decades with oompah music, lederhosen and bratwurst, but no beer. Now the party long billed as the world's only dry Oktoberfest is finally going wet. Published October 5, 2011 Comments
Colorado town displeased with tainted cantaloupes using its name
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
The residents of Rocky Ford, Colo., want to make one thing clear: The "Rocky Ford Cantaloupe" that touched off a national listeria outbreak, the deadliest U.S. food-borne outbreak in a decade, wasn't grown in Rocky Ford. Published October 4, 2011 Comments
Nation's food anti-terror plans costly, unwieldy
By Garance Burke - Associated Press
An Associated Press analysis of the programs found that the government has spent at least $3.4 billion on food counter-terrorism in the last decade, but key programs have been bogged down in a huge, multi-headed bureaucracy. Published September 13, 2011 Comments
Chicken 'steaks' brighten simple salad
By Elizabeth Karmel - Associated Press
If I had to choose one recipe that defined summer on a plate, it would be lemon chicken steaks with summer salad. Published September 8, 2011 Comments
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Shanahan’s pedigree, larger market could tempt Manning
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Admiral nominee rose through ranks despite ‘illogical act’
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times
When Lt. j.g. Timothy W. Dorsey fired his fighter jet’s missile at an Air Force ...
Catholic Bishop joins contraception mandate debate
By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times
Pointing to growing unease that President Obama’s proposed contraception coverage rule doesn’t protect religious freedom ...
