Food

Chicken Scarpariello is a sweet-and-sour chicken with sausages and fresh and pickled peppers.

Chicken Scarpariello: The best Italian dish you’ve never heard of

April 24, 2024, 6:04am Food

Chicken Scarpariello is a beloved classic Italian-American dish, and I’d never heard of it. Read story

These cake doughnuts have cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom and vanilla — things that would theoretically make them good.

Can you make your own cake doughnuts at home? Better question: Should you?

April 24, 2024, 6:03am Clark County Life

I don’t like doughnuts that much, especially cake doughnuts. I know, I know — I might as well say I don’t like sunshine and money. I mean, I’m not crazy. I have reasons. Cake doughnuts just aren’t that exciting. They’re simply round pieces of cake. And cupcakes? Don’t get me… Read story

Cottage cheese can be used to make an easy cheese dumpling.

Cottage cheese equals easy dumplings

April 24, 2024, 6:01am Food

Sometimes dinner arises from a well-laid plan that includes time for a leisurely trip to the grocery store. Read story

Lodi’s iconic arch was built in 1907 as a symbol of agricultural and commercial growth which seems to counter what is happening in the region with the oversupply of wine grapes on March 26, 2024, in Lodi, California.

Global wine glut compounds headaches for struggling California vineyards

April 20, 2024, 5:58am Food

Times are getting increasingly tough for many of California’s wine grape growers. Wine-souring smoke from wildfires, grape-shriveling drought and global warming have all been playing an increasingly detrimental role in state vineyards for at least the last decade. But those aren’t the only headaches. More recently, a tectonic shift in… Read story

Mohammed Fita picks coffee beans on his farm Choche, near Jimma, 234 miles southwest of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Sept. 21, 2002. Wild coffee plants originated in Ethiopia but are thought to have been primarily roasted and brewed in Yemen starting in the 1400s.

Your coffee may be 600,000 years old

April 20, 2024, 5:56am Food

Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers have built a family tree for the world’s most popular type of coffee, known to scientists as Coffea arabica and to coffee lovers simply as “arabica.” The researchers, hoping to learn more about the plants to better protect them from pests… Read story

Marvelous matzos: Step outside the box with this homemade recipe

These thin, crispy crackers are eaten during the Passover season — but homemade matzos are quite different from what you’d get in a box.

“Matzos are so delicious,” is something you’ve never heard anyone say. Yet people have been eating matzos (also called matzah) or similar unleavened flatbreads for thousands of years. Matzos famously taste of cardboard, a reputation perhaps well-deserved because this cracker-like bread made only of flour, water and sometimes salt. Read story