It’s Easter. It’s hard to believe there are just two more months of school before summer break (especially hard to believe when a little snow’s been flying nearly every day). Old Man Winter is especially stubborn this year. This time every year we emerge from the “other side” of winter into more daylight and warmer [...]
By ALISON LADMAN Who says the traditional Easter ham has to be traditional? We understand that there is good reason for many traditions, particularly when it comes to food. After all, many food traditions earned their place because they are simply delicious. The glazed ham is a fine example. And that’s why we decided not [...]
By Randa Wagner For The Madison Press Do you know where the meat on your dinner table comes from? From beef, pork and poultry producers, you might answer, and you’d be correct. But between the farm and the grocery store, animals have to be slaughtered, butchered and sometimes packaged for sale in meat-processing plants. [...]
By DIRK LAMMERS BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota State University will lead a nearly $4 million study aimed at giving needy families across the country healthier nutritional choices at their local food pantries, the U.S. Agriculture Department announced Wednesday. South Dakota State researchers and colleagues at Michigan State, Purdue, Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio will [...]
CENTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — So who has the best doughnuts in Ohio? If you believe a popular gourmet food magazine, the tastiest are at a place called Bill’s Donut Shop in the Dayton area. Bill’s was the only doughnut shop in Ohio named in a Saveur magazine article running down the “The 50 Finest Donut [...]
Lots of things make me happy. Granted, I’m something of a Pollyanna — but I can nearly always find something to be happy about. The first thing every morning, Jackson the Hound Dog wakes me. If it’s later than 4:30 in the morning that really makes me happy. At least he’s gentle about it. He [...]
Constance Lynn (Holycross) DiPaolo, 55, of Plain City, passed away Wednesday evening, Feb. 20, 2013, at Riverside Methodist Hospital. Born April 11, 1957, in Marysville, Ohio. She was a 1975 Fairbanks High School graduate. Member of Plain City United Methodist Church, and church secretary for Rev. Marvin Schamaun. She provided food service for the State of Ohio Scioto [...]
The greens I grew up on were “cooked to death” by good southern cooks. They were delicious — what could be slow-cooked for hours with a smoked ham hock and not be yummy? Throughout my childhood, I thought slow-simmered was the only way to eat greens. Everybody I knew ate greens that way. When I [...]
