Plumpish foodies across the country rejoice! Extra pounds can fend off some diseases according to a study profiled in The New York Times. Not only that, but skinny people may be more susceptible to these same diseases. But before you take another biscuit and lay on the fall apple butter, read the whole thing. While [...]

Peacock-Harper Culinary History Friends Group, based in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech, will hold its quarterly luncheon at the Hotel Roanoke at noon on Nov. 30.
The hotel’s Executive Chef Billie Raper will present “What the elite ate in the good old days: menus of the grand destination hotels.” Chef Raper will demonstrate a dish from the hotel’s [...]

In these days leading up to Thanksgiving, most of us can use a refresher course in how to cook this American feast’s traditional centerpiece, the turkey. Few of us buy and roast a whole 12- to 20-pound bird at any other time of the year, and it’s easy to get rusty.
Last year after I ruined another big bird [...]

Most days at the newspaper office where I work, we all sit behind our computers or at the staff table and read, write or field calls in between bites of fast-food or something brought from home and reheated. Election days have always been different, however.
That’s when the editors send out for pizza or sandwiches or [...]

All that’s left to do now is the tucking in, my farmer friends told me today by e-mail. They have called it a year, and most of my intership in organic farming is over. What the starving deer didn’t eat of the fall greens will go to the local natural foods stores, or to friends [...]