QUESTION:
Why does fruit ripen better in a brown paper bag?
ANSWER: Couldn't you have picked an easier question, like "Do you like fried chicken?"
That wou...
QUESTION: I've been told that it is easy to grill shellfish over charcoal coals. Is there a certain way that you should prepare the coals? Also, I haven't been able ...
Cookbook includes Butler Township woman's casserole
BUTLER TWP — The process of evolution is ongoing in Karen Puchnick's Butler Township kitchen.
The elements of time, ta...
QUESTION: Sometime in the 1950s, President Eisenhower published his recipe for vegetable soup. I used it and made the most delicious soup, but must have thrown out t...
Treats are as easy to make - and make disappear
Slippery, slurpy ice pops.
Is there a treat that better captures summer's frivolity?
Not in a child's eyes, for sure.
The ...
Cooked plant complements, contrasts
Rhubarb makes a beautiful statement in the garden. With its pink-purple stalks, rhubarb is one of spring's first crops.
It appears abo...
QUESTION:
I, like you, am a displaced Southerner now living in New England. I saw your show where you were in South Carolina making grits with shrimp. I would l...
"I don't know how much of the story I should tell you," Russ Vernon said, blue eyes X-raying me across the cafe table.
I tried to look harmless. "All of it," I whispered...
I love everything about coffee — that is, everything except the sky-high prices. Sick of making bad coffee at home and tired of paying lots of money for someone else to ...
For the next couple of weeks, I'm going to do some spring cleaning. You newspaper readers know what you like, and sometimes you just want a recipe for your favorite food...
