The weather has cooled a bit, so we're allowed to start thinking about heavier foods, like roasts and stews. ...more

November 28, 2008

'TOP CHEF' STOP I used to worry that I wrote too much about the Bravo show "Top Chef." Perhaps that worry was unnecessary. ...more

September 24, 2008

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

A family's dream of a restaurant has come true with the opening of Malena's Mexican Restaurant. ...more

January 12, 2008

A family's dream of a restaurant has come true with the opening of Malena's Mexican Restaurant. ...more

January 12, 2008

Farmers are hot. At least from a culinary standpoint. Epicurious.com did its annual end-of-the-year assessment of where food is headed and found the concepts of locally grown food and organic cultivation continue to bring farmers a new kind of cool, editor James Oliver Cury says. ...more

December 26, 2007

Cleveland author Michael Ruhlman has written with some of the world's best chefs. He wrote 'The French Laundry Cookbook' with Thomas Keller and 'A Return to Cooking' with Eric Ripert. He went to culinary school as part of writing a definitive trilogy of books about the making of chefs and about how culinary celebrity is affecting food culture. His latest book, 'The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen' (Scribner, $24), is intended to be a manual for anyone who wants to learn the culinary basics. ...more

October 24, 2007