Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Cakes Alone The big food news of the week: School board members in Arlington Heights, Ill., voted to ban birthday cakes and cupcakes from classrooms next year as part of a new wellness policy. Birthday parties are still OK. It's just the baked goods that suffer under a new zero-tolerance policy. ...more

June 4, 2008

Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online ad featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism. ...more

May 30, 2008

I bought a carton of pasteurized egg whites and see on the label that I can't use them to make meringue. Why not? ...more

May 20, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - When Alessi Bakeries owner Phil Alessi looks at pictures of his family on the wall in his office, he is filled with inspiration and pride. ...more

May 3, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - When Alessi Bakeries owner Phil Alessi looks at pictures of his family on the wall in his office, he is filled with inspiration and pride. ...more

May 3, 2008

Valleydale R.O., located between County Road 54 and Daughtery Road, will hold its annual Arts and Craft Fair from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. ...more

February 23, 2008

It's 12 days and counting until county fairgoers can "Rock Around the Stock." ...more

February 6, 2008

We early "snowbirds" arrived during the months of October, November and December. We anticipated the many craft fairs prior to Christmas, as in years past. ...more

January 23, 2008

Call me crazy, but I don't like throwing food away, especially bread. Like the Italians and French, we Germans worship a good loaf of bread. But I'm also a self-respecting child of Depression-era parents who raised me with a hefty nurturing of frugality. ...more

January 14, 2008

As suspects go, this caper was easier to solve than: Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald? ...more

December 20, 2007