Good food has amazing curative powers. Thick tomato soup with drizzled olive oil at a Tuscan wine bar rescued me from car sickness induced by bouncing around wine country in a full backseat. Three-bean soup from the grocery store a block away from my college apartment cured my hangovers. A four-hour, eight-course meal from then-under-the-radar chef Grant Achatz cured me of the flu. ...more

September 4, 2008

It's less than three weeks into the new year and any resolutions about weight loss are a ridiculous fantasy. ...more

January 17, 2008

Bern's Steak House owner David Laxer announced Thursday that four in-house chefs will guide the restaurant and its progressive South Tampa companion eatery, SideBern's. The appointments come seven weeks after longtime executive chef Jeannie Pierola left the company. ...more

December 27, 2007

Muffins are like a baker's delicious shorthand. Mixed in minutes, baked in about the time it takes to make a pot of coffee, the rows of little cakes can come out of the oven and straight to the breakfast table. ...more

November 28, 2007