Food

Almond Roca heads around a bend on the conveyor belt into the chocolate coating machine at candymaker Brown and Haley's Tacoma Wash. plant on Monday, June 12, 2000. J.C. Haley teamed up with candymaker and store owner Harry L. Brown to start the company in 1914.

Tacoma’s favorite candy celebrates 100 years of yum

October 14, 2023, 6:05am Food

Tacoma was a chocolate town. Read story

$The customer demand is there, so Trader Joe's goes all out with pumpkin desserts, sauces, spreads, snacks and more every autumn. This array is a fraction of the offerings.$

Pick a pack of Trader Joe’s pumpkin specialties

$The customer demand is there, so Trader Joe's goes all out with pumpkin desserts, sauces, spreads, snacks and more every autumn. This array is a fraction of the offerings.$

October 14, 2023, 6:02am Food

No one does pumpkin season like Trader Joe’s. The autumnal array of products, which seems to have arrived earlier than ever, includes a sizable number of returning bestsellers and a few new options. We bought two grocery bags’ worth of snacks and treats and put them to the test. Here… Read story

One hundred years ago, in 1923, the first Milky Way bar was made and sold in Minneapolis. Within a year, sales reached $800,000 -- the equivalent of more than $14 million in today's dollars.

Milky War bar celebrates 100 years

October 13, 2023, 6:48am Food

Frank Mars needed a breakthrough. Read story

The cafeteria at Clark College's McClaskey Culinary Institute serves hot meals like this chicken yakisoba.

Hot meals, sweet treats: Clark College students get hands-on training in culinary arts

October 13, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

Clark College’s culinary program dates back to 1958. In 2017, the Tod and Maxine McClaskey Family Foundation gave the program $4 million to upgrade the program with state-of-the-art teaching and dining spaces. In addition to creating physical spaces for the program, Clark College updated its cuisine management and baking and… Read story

Broiler makes quick work of Greek favorite

October 11, 2023, 6:21am Food

Souvlaki translates from the Greek as “skewer,” but a rotating spit and open fire are not necessary to achieve similarly satisfying results. Read story

Big salads make dinner easy

Big bowls of salad, teeming with vegetables and fruits and cheese, are ideal for easy end-of-summer cooking, like this Radish Salad With Lime and Parmesan. (Photos by Myung J.

October 11, 2023, 6:19am Food

After sitting down to dinner at a friend’s house a couple of days ago, I was confronted with something I hadn’t seen in a month: a big leafy green salad. Because of traveling on the East Coast, and eating out so much, I had forgotten the homey joys of a… Read story

Don’t put off pumpkining: Pumpkin coconut pudding easy, delicious way to kick off the season for fall’s favorite flavor

Mix pureed pumpkin with coconut milk and vanilla instant pudding, and you've got a rich, silky dessert in minutes.

October 11, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

Is it too soon to begin The Pumpkining? I think not. I was going to save my pumpkin recipe for later in October, or maybe even November, but then I thought, “Why? Why wait for the good stuff?” Let’s have our pumpkin and eat it, too. This easy coconut pumpkin… Read story