For most of us, 2009 was a year of cutting back.Trust me, your local food writer and restaurant critic was no exception. Nearly every week, I wrote about fabulous multi-course wine dinners and special restaurant events that sounded so tempting I had to strap on a drool cup just to finish typing. One thing is clear: The Miami Valley boasts a wealth of local chefs who know how to pull out all the ...

Resolutions are easy to make and even easier to abandon. Righteousness gives way to guilt as my commitments fall by the wayside: disappointment clouds every...

Love Grows a Farm CSA has new pick up locations in Phoenix

SONOMA, Calif. - The olive tree was first introduced to California by Spanish priests of the Franciscan, Dominican, and Jesuit orders who founded missions in the New World. By the mid-18th century, there were 20 missions dotting Baja California, most with orchards and gardens that featured the Mediterranean trees most familiar to their inhabitants: olives, pears, pomegranates, and figs.

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A recipe for Baked Goat Cheese With Garden Lettuces.

In last year's futuristic movie, "Wall-E," human beings, evacuated from an uninhabitable Earth, now live in a space station, confined to hover chairs and unable to walk because they have become so obese. Actually, it's the other way around. They became so obese because they no longer walked.

Earlier this year, FLORIDA TODAY asked readers to tell us which restaurant on the Space Coast makes the best pizza. We received more than 40 e-mails telling us where to go.

Denver's Curious Theatre will petition the U.S. Supreme Court for the right to smoke non-tobacco products in its theatrical productions, artistic director Chip Walton said Wednesday.

See the best dishes in the Twin Cities as selected by Pioneer Press restaurant critic Kathie Jenkins.