“Sugar and shape are the only difference between biscuits and scones,” posits famed New York Times food writer Molly O’Neill.
In her 1998 piece “Jam Session,” she explores the connection between the American south’s long marriage to light, airy biscuits and Scotland’s fondness for the sweet tea cakes called scones.
Both are leavened with baking powder [...]

I can’t wait to throw my next dinner party just so I can show off everything I’ve learned about wine since watching “John Cleese’s Wine for the Confused.”
Based on the premise that good wine is what tastes good to you and fits your budget, Cleese’s show makes a supremely useful introduction to the overly complicated [...]

Noted Civil War historian James Robertson will discuss the ramifications of military rations and their affects on the soldiers, for whom diarrhea was the most prevalent disease, according to a news release. There will also be a demonstration of a pork-based dish commonly eaten by troops in that war.
Friday, March 28, 2008 at noon at [...]

After months of researching home sausage grinders and good sausage recipes — not to mention watching the “To Stuff a Sausage” episode of Julia Child’s The French Chef — I had the luck to be invited to a home sausage making party hosted by Brett and Johanna Nichols of Five Penny Farm, an organic vegetable [...]

ELLISTON — Dave Long can remember when Montgomery County had more than a dozen dairy farms and supported four family-owned feed and flour mills.
Today he can count the number of local dairies on one white powdered hand, and Big Spring Mill, owned and operated by his family since 1935, is the only mill left standing.
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