As the country waits in nail-biting anticipation of the House vote on health care reform, there is something we can actually do: Cook.

Remember that thing called Sunday dinner? Let's give it a try.

Let's see what happens when we bypass the drive-thru window or the...

For 30 years on this day, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has organized World Food Day, to help bring awareness of global hunger and food insecurity. As I learned at this time last year, the numbers tell this story better than any analysis or punditry.

July 15 started off as an ordinary work day in the life of this online food writer, a day of deadlines and endless electronic messages sprinkled in with Twitter breaks, the 21st-century version of the water cooler conversation.

The motley crew that comprises my Twitter-verse consists of...