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  • Toronto’s underground food market launches this fall Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 11:32AMMonthly event will lure cooks and foodies to celebrate homemade treats
  • Google hangs out the O.C. help wanted sign Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 3:04AMPsst, did you hear? Google is hiring — in Orange County. The search engine giant announced with great fanfare in February that it would be on a hiring spree this year, reportedly adding as many as 6,000 people worldwide to its staff of 26,000. ...
  • How to Price Your E-book and Survive in the Amazon Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 8:26AMThree industry experts dispel our most common e-book selling fears. By now we’ve all heard about mystery-thriller writer John Locke’s ascension into the ranks of the Kindle million-seller club.
  • Why Palin Volunteers Should Quit, Whether She's Running or Not Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 8:26AMAdvocacy groups are just more reliable than politicians, and less likely to prove a total waste of time
  • Get high at America's best mountain resorts Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 10:11AMFor high altitude and low summer rates, check into one of America’s best mountain resorts, as chosen by Travel+Leisure readers.
  • American exceptionalism? Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 12:04PMWe vote for politicians who promise us tax cuts, entitlement programs, costly foreign nation building and balanced budgets. Why can't we have it? Logical thinking people realize this is a deception that will only take place in Camelot or another Utopia for which we are all searching.
  • Food for thought: Avoid high-fat diet during pregnancy Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 7:16AMA high-fat diet during pregnancy may program a woman's baby for future diabetes, even if she herself is not obese or diabetic, says a new University of Illinois study published in the Journal of Physiology.
  • Wading through cookbooks Thursday, June 16, 2011 @ 2:05PMLive in a small apartment for long enough and you could end up a hoarder.
  • Why Los Angeles Schoolkids Get Lousy Meals Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 7:43PMAt 12:33 p.m., the lunch bell rings at Los Angeles High School. Moments later comes the stampede. Kids — 2,000 of them — burst through the cafeteria doors, pushing and shoving, funneled through the serving area like ants in an ant farm. Among them is Stephanie...
  • 'Top Chef Masters' season 3 recap: Plating blind and cooking for returning soldiers as finale looms Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 8:05AMPortland chef Naomi Pomeroy is among the contestants for this year's edition of the "Top Chef" spin-off. Grant Butler checks in each week on how she's doing in the reality cooking competition, which continues with a Quickfire Challenge where the chefs have to blindly guide someone through plating a dish, followed by an Elimination round where they cook for military men and women returning home ...
  • Local 48G joins pickets in Illinois Friday, June 3, 2011 @ 2:05PMA couple of Roquette America Inc. union employees from the Keokuk corn processing plant are planning to join representatives of Jobs with Justice today for a protest outside Roquette’s newest American facility in Geneva, Ill.
  • Buster, the big black Lab, is instrumental in bringing home missing Marines Thursday, June 2, 2011 @ 5:36PMYou wouldn’t know it to look at him, but retired Mammoth Lakes Police Department officer Paul Dostie’s big, rambunctious Lab, Buster, has become something of an international sensation recently.
  • Hardees Honors Boddie-Noell with Founders Award Wednesday, June 1, 2011 @ 10:26AMRichmond - ST. LOUIS, Mo. (June 1, 2011) – Hardee’s® franchise owner Boddie-Noell Enterprises has received the 2011 Wilber Hardee Founder’s Award from Hardee’s parent company CKE Restaurants.
  • Hardee's Honors Boddie-Noell with Founder's Award Wednesday, June 1, 2011 @ 10:23AMHampton Roads - ST. LOUIS, Mo. (June 1, 2011) – Hardee’s® franchise owner Boddie-Noell Enterprises has received the 2011 Wilber Hardee Founder’s Award from Hardee’s parent company CKE Restaurants.
  • Hardee's Honors Boddie-Noell with Founder's Award Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 1:55PMTriangle - Hardee’s® franchise owner Boddie-Noell Enterprises has received the 2011 Wilber Hardee Founder’s Award from Hardee’s parent company CKE Restaurants.
  • How to Cook Pasta Correctly [Do It Right] Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 1:14PM# doitright Boiling pasta is supposed to be simple. It's the perennial college student meal because it involves only about four steps, one of which is boiling water. But is it really that easy? Have you been doing something wrong all along? More »
  • Hardee's Honors Boddie-Noell With Founder's Award Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 11:37AMChain Presents Award for Teamwork and Community Service
  • Move Over Cupcakes – 2011 is “The Year of the Pie” Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 8:13AMBakery shelves, restaurant menus and even red carpet event dinner plates are exploding with imaginative new flavors and styles of the latest food trend: pies. With pies popping up all around town—there are even restaurants devoted just to pie and pie delivery options by bicycle—Pillsbury says, “Pie is the new cupcake!”
  • foodchannel.com Predicts Top Ten Dessert Trends for 2011 Wednesday, May 25, 2011 @ 1:39PMThe Food Channel® presents its "Top Ten Dessert Trends for 2011," sponsored by MARS® Foodservices. By partnering with CultureWaves® , the International Food Futurists®, and Mintel International , The Food Channel has been able to identify the most significant food trends in dessert for 2011, from the evolution of the ever popular cupcake to the new raw food movement.
  • Come Into My Kitchen | Frontier cooking helps keep history alive Tuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 9:03PMWhile many people are grilling this Memorial Day weekend, cooking over hot coals is more than a summertime pleasure for Helen Miller. A docent at the John Wornall House Museum in Kansas City, Miller cooks over an open hearth to show what life was like in a Civil War-era kitchen.
  • Table Talk: Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake head to 'Liquorville'; 'Star Wars' noodles Tuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 12:06PMAt the digital kitchen table, we have a grab-bag of food-related finds. Among them: a boozy sketch from "Saturday Night Live" featuring Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga; noodles that look like Chewbacca; a taste-test of bottled barbecue sauce; a drink with more than 2,000 calories; and chef Tom Colicchio talking about his appearance on HBO's "Treme."
  • 45th Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest Lets You Be the Judge Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 12:15PMMINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Entries for the 45th Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest are in and and once again the Contest is letting You Be the Judge! Vote now at www.bakeoff.com.
  • Banks Are to Blame for Rising Food Costs Monday, May 9, 2011 @ 12:00PMWhat's behind the spiraling cost of food? It's not just oil and the burgeoning appetites of Americans. As Frederick Kaufman, the author of A Short History of the American Stomach explains in an article in this month's Foreign Policy , titled " How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis ": Since the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000, there has been a 50 - fold increase in dollars invested in ...
  • Miracle-Gro and America's Test Kitchen Partner on Garden Fresh Ideas Wednesday, May 4, 2011 @ 6:00AMFrom gardens to dinner table, growing delicious fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits is an easy, fun and simple way to tempt families outside, cook up new recipes in the kitchen, and gather everyone on time for dinner.
  • School Digest Thursday, April 28, 2011 @ 5:27AMGBN
  • Noted cookbook author finds plenty in Vermont to stay active at 85 Wednesday, April 27, 2011 @ 9:52PMProcessing: Cut red and green peppers into 1 and one-half-inch pieces and put them in the work bowl of the food processor fitted with the steel blade. Mince by pulsing the machine on and off a few times. Remove peppers to a medium bowl.
  • Running with a Fork: Get cooking with chef, author Sara Moulton comes to Santa Fe Wednesday, April 27, 2011 @ 1:26AMFor about two decades, I happily donned the chef whites for a living.
  • Watch It! What's on TV the week of April 25 to May 1: Monday, April 25, 2011 @ 10:04AMNaomi (AnnaLynne McCord) confronts Max (Josh Zuckerman) with her dissatisfaction about keeping their relationship secret and her suspicions about his fidelity.
  • Cookbook Preserves Treasured Recipes From The Holocaust Wednesday, April 20, 2011 @ 7:29PM(RNS) The last time Regina Finer's mother cooked the soft, dense potato dumplings called kluskies, Regina couldn't have been more than 12.
  • Fasting, Budget Cuts and National Humiliation Friday, April 15, 2011 @ 10:19AMOver two weeks ago I stopped eating and started fasting, calling on brothers and sisters in Christ to do the same.
  • Chilli: C'mon baby, light my fire Tuesday, April 12, 2011 @ 6:36PMBritain is swept up in a red-hot passion – a national love affair. Look in kitchens up and down the land and you'll find little bottles of dauntingly-potent sauce, tubs of fearsomely strong powder and the distinctive, gleaming, scimitar-shaped fruit of the chilli plant. All of these items are clearly marked by nature as red for danger, yet we are fascinated with this deeply pleasurable, if ...
  • Children who consume white potatoes have more nutrient-dense diets Tuesday, April 12, 2011 @ 5:25AMResearch to be presented this week at The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Conference in Washington, D.C., demonstrates that consumption of white potatoes by children does not displace other vegetables from children's meals.
  • Bibliofiles : Book reviews by Ruth Freeman Friday, April 8, 2011 @ 11:37AMSpring has sprung on the shelves. There are lots of great new books so come in and browse. There are new memoirs, mysteries guaranteed to keep you glued to the pages and plenty of just darn good reads.
  • Noted cookbook author finds plenty in Vermont to stay active at 85 Thursday, April 7, 2011 @ 11:38PMProcessing: Cut red and green peppers into 1 and one-half-inch pieces and put them in the work bowl of the food processor fitted with the steel blade. Mince by pulsing the machine on and off a few times. Remove peppers to a medium bowl.
  • A kringle for the road Wednesday, April 6, 2011 @ 3:04PMThe pecan pastry is among the blue-ribbon recipes in the new cookbook from America's Test Kitchens.
  • Portsmouth area community calendar Sunday, April 3, 2011 @ 6:54AMThe Music Hall presents: "Swan Lake" at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 3 at 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth. Tickets are $50-$20 and can be purchased at the box office, by phone at 436-2400 or online at www.themusichall.org.
  • The Hidden Play on Rising Energy Prices Tuesday, March 22, 2011 @ 3:03PMSometimes, it's better to bet indirectly.
  • 'Mama' tempts O.C. diners via Facebook Monday, March 21, 2011 @ 12:16PMOrange County foodies have been engrossed in the mystery surrounding Mama - a culinary tease who has been posting images of her delish dishes on Facebook since...
  • Secret Facebook eatery in O.C. revealed Friday, March 18, 2011 @ 8:15PMOrange County foodies have been engrossed in the mystery surrounding Mama – a culinary tease who has been posting images of her delish dishes on Facebook since mid-February. The secretive Mama is launching a restaurant in Huntington Beach, and she...
  • Business Awards Monday, March 14, 2011 @ 12:55AM■ Anna Marie Lewis , a designer with Architectural Kitchens & Bath, has earned her Nati
  • Visiting author shares his tale of 50 days' work in 50 states Tuesday, March 8, 2011 @ 2:19AMDaniel Seddiqui embarked on a year-long journey across the United States in September 2008 with a used Jeep and a check for $250 from his father.
  • Cali kitchen to prepare District’s food Monday, March 7, 2011 @ 1:10PMA new kitchen facility at Cali Calmécac Language Academy will open its doors this month to prepare fresh foods and new nutritional menu items to students in the Windsor Unified School District.
  • Susan R. Pollack: Welcome Mat Friday, March 4, 2011 @ 3:43AMI'm sure all of us could use a splash of color right about now. You'll find more than a splash this month at the Belleville Area Museum where "Patches & Patterns: A Celebration of Quilts" showcases more than 100 of the antique and contemporary examples. Among the more unusual is this Michigan-themed quilt by Barbara Price of Belleville. The library, 405 Main St., Belleville, is open from noon to ...
  • Pizza Hut hopes new headquarters in Plano will help bolster innovation Tuesday, March 1, 2011 @ 10:03PMA mammoth test kitchen is an integral part of the facility, which was officially dedicated Tuesday.
  • Muscogee Co. Supt., Schley Co. teacher named to GA Education Advisory Board Friday, February 25, 2011 @ 3:48PMTwo educators from our region have been named to a statewide Education Advisory Board by Georgia Governor Nathan Deal.
  • Portsmouth area community calendar Friday, February 25, 2011 @ 1:10AMPortsmouth
  • Ready for game day Tuesday, February 15, 2011 @ 11:01AMThe teams will get there early on Sunday. Some team members may even arrive already dressed in uniform.
  • Ready for game day Saturday, February 5, 2011 @ 12:16PMThe teams will get there early on Sunday. Some team members may even arrive already dressed in uniform.
  • Midweek Special: NYC Restaurant Review Roundup Wednesday, February 2, 2011 @ 9:15AMThe Fat Radish on Orchard Street resembles, in the eyes of Times critic Sam Sifton, "a handsome young golden Labrador, camera-ready, hard not to like... To sit in its dining room as light plays off the huge mirror in back, candles flickering everywhere, eating rillettes and drinking wine, is to experience a small part of the New York that leads people here inexorably and always will. They get ...
  • A life filled with firsts Thursday, January 27, 2011 @ 10:12AMIn 1887, the Massachusetts State Board of Health commissioned MIT’s new laboratory of sanitary chemistry to survey the state’s drinking water, the first such study in America. Led by Ellen H. Swallow Richards, an instructor at the lab, the two-year survey analyzed more than 20,000 samples collected from inland bodies of water that had been polluted with industrial waste and sewage. As a result ...