Everyone wants to move to Maine these days...It wasn't like that when we were growing up. In fact, ...

If you’re like me, the grenadine you grew up adding to cocktails and Shirley Temples is nothing ...

Alton Brown's 18-Carrot Cake

While the name of this cake is 18-Carrot Cake, there are not eighteen ...

Did you know the "Whoopie pie" is the State Treat of Maine? I had no idea states had designated ...

This past weekend at the BlogHer Conference, I was on a panel entitled, "The Meaning of Identity ...

Eat your vegetables! Mom's famous words. Just like everyone else, I too hated many vegetables when ...

I always look forward to Thanksgiving. Sharing the holday with my family, extended family, and a ...

I love food. And I love going out to eat and trying new places. And I love talking about food. In ...

What used to be a quiet street is now where it's at. Where there was nothing, there are heady ...

The Charcoaler in El Paso, Texas, looks like it fell out of time capsule from the 1950s. That is a ...

Last Friday I took my daughter Hannah to tour Chapman College located only an hour south of Los ...

"While we don't agree on the validity of this holiday, we still wouldn't refuse any of these items ...

So you're preparing for Thanksgiving and you’re already irritable just thinking about the cooking ...

They say you always remember your first. And were we talking about a kiss, I remember sitting on a ...

It happened suddenly.  One minute we were together, touching, my hands on his body, as close as ...

Every once in a while, a great cookbook comes along! And it's almost time for spring baking.

Finding random emails in my in box, requesting a review(basically asking if I want “free” stuff) of ...

Long before I was a cooker, I was a reader and a writer. I was one of those kids who had to be told ...