An author once told me that much to her objection, publishers made her put the word Diet in the title of her book or it would not sell. I assume the same happened to the authors of another book I’ve discovered thanks to my dad, who lemmings after all things [...]

Something about chicken pot pie conjures images of snow days when I watched others shovel snow from while I sat on the other side of the picture window all warm and lazy. My mom never made chicken pot pie; perhaps it was too exotic for middle Wisconsin, yet that’s how [...]

If you have the blues this year, maybe you should look no further than your plate’s palate. We pitched the virtues of colorful foods for Thanksgiving one year ago.  But breaking the beige takes practice; so we thought let’s bring it back one more time.

I like to gravy it up [...]

Food solves all problems. Why do you think there are 17,973,029,001 food blogs?

My motto: life happens, then you eat, then you die.

So whenever a hardship – rain or cold or colds or cold-sores or cold shoulders – comes our way, only one remedy soothes from the inside out. The gold [...]

Many years ago, I worked in cable television to support my culinary habit of wanting tasting menus at fine restaurants. Thank you Charlie Trotter for helping me part with many hard earned dollars. In my  business, we had a group of customers we referred to as “truck chasers.” These delicious [...]