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NEW YORK — Your $400 date at Carbone doesn't begin with anything fancy. No caviar, no foie gras. Instead, your waiter appears in a red Zac Posen tuxedo, looking and sounding like Joe Pesci in "My Cousin Vinny." He pierces a chunk of Parmesan...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Jerry Untiedt, of Untiedt's Vegetable Farm in Waverly, already has tomato plants in the ground under giant "high tunnel" metal and plastic field houses. The houses, which look like makeshift Quonset huts, trap the sun's heat and...

  1 hour. Serves 4 to 6 as an appetizer 1 cup bulgur, medium (No. 2) or fine (No. 1) (about 5.5 ounces) Salt 1 cup hot water 3 small green onions 5 tablespoons fruity extra-virgin olive oil, or more to taste, divided 1 brown onion (about 8...

  Total time: 2 hours, 55 minutes Servings: 16 Note: From Terry Fortia, sous chef at Memphis. Bayou Magic Cajun Seasoning and Red Rooster hot sauce are widely available in supermarkets. Aidells makes an andouille sausage that is also widely available....

  Chicken breasts have a bad reputation -- too often they're considered nothing but diet food, and dried-out diet food at that. But that's the fault of the cook, not the ingredient. The challenge of a chicken breast is that it's uneven, fat on one end...

Mother's Day is Sunday, and if you're wondering where to celebrate with Mom, here are 24 restaurants offering options such as free Champagne with brunch, blueberry French toast, squash blossom enchiladas and, of course, the bottomless mimosa. Border...

The first thing you notice when you enter Badmaash, a new Indian gastropub in downtown L.A., is a giant wall covered in striped colors. Deep purples, reds, oranges, blues and black stretch from the floor all the way to the white painted ceiling. It's part...

    Adapted from Chef Angelo Elia, who now serves this one of his several restaurants, D'Angelo Trattoria, 9 SE Seventh Ave., Delray Beach. Read John Tanasychuk's review of D'Angelo Trattoria.      3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil      1 (8-...

      Chef Rich Matthews, of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, likes to serve this salad with a starch. He simmers purple Peruvian potatoes in lightly salted water until knife-tender. Each salad gets a few slices.       Vinaigrette     Juice of...

(Reuters) - My wife Becky and I experimented with radically cutting our food costs last week as part of a fundraising campaign created by a hunger charity. Under the "Live Below The Line" campaign sponsored by the Global Poverty Project, an Australian...

Just because a product has a hefty price tag doesn't always mean it delivers what it claims. ShopSmart, the shopping magazine from the publisher of Consumer Reports, recently identified pricey products — including appliances, big and small,...

LOS ANGELES -- Isabella Rossellini's search for the meaning of maternal instinct in "Mammas" looks at nine animals where things like polygamy, lying and dying convince her that "anything goes." The program timed to air Mother's Day on the Sundance...