You know the routine: It's time to make resolutions to exercise more, eat more fruit and vegetables and maintain (or obtain) a healthy weight. In the Tampa Bay area, you don't have to sign up for a gym membership you'll never use or join a regimented diet program to reach your health goals. The area's rich resources put a healthy lifestyle within your reach - picturesque hiking trails and parks, walking paths at the water's edge, a population with a zest for sports, and organic farms and farmers markets offering fresh produce. Here are a few of the local options. ...more

January 1, 2010

Lasagna is an Italian dish - generally layers of meat, cheese and pasta. ...more

December 28, 2009

Produce market competes for customers in tough economy. ...more

October 26, 2009

You've seen the old black-and-white pictures and grainy films of those mean and lean years of what we call the Great Depression. The stark colors match the mood of those times, and, in fact, I think those shadowy pictures of bread lines and haunted faces contribute to today's fears about what might be looming. ...more

March 10, 2009

It has to be a very tasty carrot to lure me over the Sunshine Skyway. Call it bridge jitters. ...more

January 21, 2009

It has to be a very tasty carrot to lure me over the Sunshine Skyway. Call it bridge jitters. ...more

January 21, 2009

Some Bay area families were on the receiving end of a service today that put a holiday spin on the words "good government." ...more

December 22, 2008

Is it OK to freeze tomatillos? I got a whole bucket of them and can't make or use that much green sauce before they spoil. ...more

December 21, 2008

A variety of kitchen-related questions are answered, including one about whether to use self-rising flour in Mrs. Harvey's white fruitcake. ...more

December 15, 2008

It wasn't easy to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning to deliver The Tampa Morning Tribune during the Depression. I and two of my brothers would ride our bicycles to get our papers at the gas station across from Milian's Restaurant at Florida and Lake avenues in Tampa, where subscription manager Floyd Gonder counted out copies to us. ...more

December 7, 2008