In creating products that will sell consistently, food manufacturers learned to walk a line between the extremes of an exciting first bite or sip and the utterly familiar. More than any other product, Coke had mastered this balancing act.
When I was growing up, Sunday dinners were somewhat of a ritual around our house. My grandmother had comfort down to a science. Formalities were now...
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Human beings often confuse appetites, and substitute one craving for another. Rather than responding to the desire to move more, we often substitute eating more, or napping.
With so many friends I like to entertain, it might seem logical to space out my dinner party schedule. In reality, I've found it's easier to take a d...
Ok. I know this is supposed to be a column about entertaining, but to be perfectly honest, having a party is the last thing I feel like doing right no...
Cole slaw is the side dish of the South, one; and mayonnaise is the glue that holds my people together. If we neglect to ingest something with mayonn...
IT'S unseemly to play foodie on Halloween, a day devoted to candy in all its sweet, sour, gummy, fizzy, sticky, chocolaty, crunchy and infinitely nutt...