I’m not sure what others do when they have insomnia, it looks like I write on my blog. I have had good intentions about writing about the co...

One of the "hot" forthcoming books for the fall is Service Included: 4-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch....

I was asked to help promote Cheez-It Crackers with their "BIG CHEESE" taste this weekend. My gig was to talk about the amazing 700...

Ilan Hall at Great Grapes in Annapolis Maryland explains the interview process that got him on Top Chef. Click on the title to see the video...

After 2 days working at the Fancy Food Show and limited time to walk the floor I have come up with a couple of picks. Chocolate with Bacon ....

My food buddy and I decided to try two pizza places in Baltimore that have had rave reviews. We had an early start and off we went to Easter...

I’m not usually swayed by television ads but there was something about the ad for Friendly’s burgers a couple months ago that had me salivat...

Well folks, here is a photo I took at the opening event for the International Association of Culinary Professionals in April. It was held a...

Up at 4 a.m. and ready to go by 5 a.m. on a ROAD TRIP to New York City. Camera, cell phone, mp3 player, one large empty suitcase, two totes,...

I attended the IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) conference in Chicago in April. I want to share an experience I h...

U.S. Food and Drug Administration has extended its deadline regarding what can be called chocolate Due to an overwhelming outcry from the pu...

As I touch this delicate paper cookbook/pamphlet, Wartime from July 1944, it starts to fall apart in my hands. My husband, a flea market-ya...

The cookbook I compiled with Jeff Spear, Yum ~ Tasty Recipes from Culinary Greats isn't even published yet and its being discounted fro...

Took a walk yesterday for an hour and I did water aerobics for an hour today, suspended with no floatation device. My reward for the exercis...

No recent Dining Dish Newsletters. No posts to the blogs. I swear I am alive and well and living (that is questionable) in my office working...

Wednesday for many years was the traditional day the supermarket food circulars came out, they came in the Wednesday paper, and the sales ra...

A trip to New York City is always about the food - at least to me it is. My restaurant choices are always the center of my angst; I can only...