Kachina: Imagine biting into a chocolate chip peanut butter cookie. But the peanut butter is unsweetened, and grainy, and oily, even after being baked. And…
If you thought that chocolate grew on trees, you’d be right. But not in the form of candy bars or foil-wrapped bon bons. Earlier this…
All over America, school lunches and pizza seem to go hand in hand. But few of us realize that this favorite of children and grown-ups…
For millions of children in the Indian subcontinent, closing-time at school heralds the arrival of a very special person-the chaatwala, with his handcart and colored…
Imagine the parching heat of an Indian summer. The streets are nearly deserted except for a few stragglers, and idle shopkeepers stare grumpily into space.…
While we all know that October is famous for Halloween candy, it is also a month to celebrate strange foods in general. October 9 (1996)…
I didn’t think that anyone, except the advertising agencies, would think of making up jingles about all those things we try to get our children…
That’s Homer Price’s Aunt Aggie, complaining about newfangled inventions like the doughnut machine that his Uncle Ulysses is tinkering with in the couple’s new little coffee shop on the village square in Centerberg, USA.
It’s National Noodle Month, and Shelley Fraser Mickle is singing the praises of pasta and all its twists and turns.
Who would guess that there’s a story in cornflakes? Shelley Fraser Mickle has one for us today on this toasted American institution.