See the man on the flying trapeze for free Friday when you donate nonperishable food to Metropolitan Ministries. The local pantry, which provides goods and services to poor and homeless families, is in need of food stuff, including cereal, stuffing, canned meat, vegetables and canned fruit. Metropolitan Ministries serves more than 150 families a day, according to a news release. ...more

November 19, 2008

Love it, hate it or laugh at it — at least it's inexpensive. ...more

May 29, 2008

Fun "The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge," by David Kamp and Marion Rosenfeld (Broadway Books, $12.95). This book's definition of a food snob? "A food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjects." The rest of the book is equally as irreverent. ...more

November 28, 2007

Days after an Apollo Beach church's trailer was stolen with Thanksgiving food for the poor inside, the church has received more than enough food donations to rebound. ...more

November 16, 2007

Days after an Apollo Beach church's trailer was stolen with Thanksgiving food for the poor inside, the church has received more than enough food donations to rebound. ...more

November 15, 2007

An Apollo Beach church's trailer filled with Thanksgiving food for the poor has been stolen. ...more

November 14, 2007

An Apollo Beach church's trailer filled with Thanksgiving food for the needy has been stolen. The trailer was taken sometime between Sunday afternoon and this morning from Calvary Lutheran Church's satellite property in the Ruskin area. A broken lock was found on the property. ...more

November 13, 2007

The stuff in the boxes isn't fancy: canned soup, Vienna sausages, cartons of macaroni and cheese. ...more

October 8, 2007

TAMPA - The stuff in the boxes isn't fancy: canned soup, Vienna sausages, cartons of macaroni and cheese. ...more

October 7, 2007

Food insecurity - it's a term that means not knowing where your next meal will come from or whether you will have the money to pay for it. ...more

October 6, 2007