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Slice 'em and salt 'em. That's really all a seasonally delicious tomato needs. Though if you really want to gussy it up, you could add a bit of pepper, a splash of olive oil, maybe a sprinkle of balsamic vinegar. Just enough of each to highlight the sweetly acidic flavor of the juicy...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Let's face it: In today's hurry-up culture, there always will be a need for fast food. Even when you're enjoying a leisurely vacation in a place like Traverse City, a Lake Michigan resort community with a nationwide reputation for restaurants serving...

Teresa Farney

Not that you should need an excuse to eat well, but August is Kids Eat Right Month and I've got just the ticket to help you jump on the bandwagon. It's an app for iPads and iPhones by Bean Sprouts titled "Cooking Fun For Kids: Healthy Playful Recipes, Food Games, and Videos for Kids in...

By debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com -

Each year, Colorado College students become urban farmers. For an entire year of their undergraduate studies, starting in March, a group of students plans, budgets, plants, maintains and harvests produce for the school cafeteria - and they get paid to do it. This year, there's a new...

By Teresa Farney

Watermelon agua fresca (Spanish for “fresh water”) is made quickly in a blender and offers a beautiful, refreshing summertime drink. Watermelon agua fresca — Yield: 2 servings 2 cups cold water 2 cups watermelon (rind removed), seeded and chopped 2 tablespoons granulated...

Pizza Hut's Cheesy Bites Pizza is back. You remember the pie with 28 pull-apart puffs loaded with cheese circling the pie. As if Pizza Hut was lacking for places to hide more cheese, now even stuffed crust isn't the pole-sitter. Here's the Cheesy Bites Pizza breakdown: a large,...

By jakob rodgers jakob.rodgers@gazette.com -

This year's batch of Rocky Ford cantaloupes began appearing in stores Friday, according to the growers association overseeing farming of the fruit in southern Colorado. The arrival comes shortly after the Rocky Ford Growers Association announced deep losses to its crop this year due...

By JL FIELDS Special to The Gazette -

Editor's note: JL Fields joins the dining team with monthly reviews of vegan options at a wide variety of local restaurants. No meat, no fish, no dairy, but lots of vegetables. For a lot of 
people, eating vegan is tantamount to a culinary death sentence. But for me, veganism...

Watermelon is one of those foods you really don't need to overthink. Slice it. Eat it. Spit out the occasional seed. Done. Trouble is, the sweet, refreshing taste of watermelon is so appealing in summer, I tend to overbuy. And before long I find myself with two or even three massive...

by T.D. mobley-martinez tracy.mobleymartinez@gazette.com -

It wasn't simply one commercial. It was a childhood awash in them. Like most of our childhoods, more or less. Printmaker Sam Cikauskas has channeled the sweet myth making of Mountain Dew, Heinz ketchup, Coca-Cola and other products into a series of lithographs. "I guess it's my...