It’s a great peach year, and at our farmers markets, pretty wooden baskets of the blushing beauties are lined up proudly at several stalls. For both of these recipes – a sweet-tart salsa and a sweetly spiced peach cobbler – you can use peaches that are less than perfect, simply cutting out any bad spots. […]

Perusing the Maine Historical Society’s colorful collection of old menus makes for a tasty and edifying stroll down Memory Lane.

After last year’s narrow defeat of a citizen-initiated referendum in California that would have required genetically engineered foods to be labeled, the issue of GMO food has done anything but disappear from the spotlight. Instead, the debate over GMOs (genetically modified organisms) gained visibility during the summer, particularly with consumers but also with policy makers, […]