I wasn’t always a country fan. I hated it when I was younger. I used to think that you had to live in the Midwest and own a ranch to like country music. Then I met a pretty girl that loved it. You can imagine how that went. I let her change the station in the car. I listened to the double sided tapes of full on country music she made for me. She wrote letters to me full of sappy lines from her favorite country love songs and I …

By Eleanor Knowles
Most people love food, whether they admit it or not. And lots of us don’t mind a drop of nostalgia now and then too. Combine the two and you’ve got a recipe for one of those “I remember my Granny making the most delicious apple pie from the fruit tree in the garden” kind of moment. In fact there are loads of old wives’ tales about food, and we’re not the only ones interested in them.
Doctors and various other experts are all digging up old sayings and brandishing …

By Elea Almazora
I grew up in a culture where everything – I’m not kidding, I do mean EVERYTHING – is pretty much celebrated with food. We have fantastically wonderful spreads during the Christmas and New Year seasons, treat each other to a special lunch or dinner on birthdays, even bring little snacks over to work because Gina in accounting is going to have a baby and we all just found out. Food just makes everything so much better for us, because more than just nourishment, food symbolizes for us a …

Spring is here, the time for planting gardens. Some years I plant them, some I don’t. This year I did because of the price of gasoline.
I get crazy ideas like that from time to time. I once chose the car I was going to buy based on the trip I was about to take. It was a long trip and I thought I might save a few dollars by sleeping in my car rather than staying in a hotel room. That’s why I chose a Toyota Matrix, because you could …