Food
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Stevenson High School student team prevails in sandwich-eating contestJul 20, 2013 9:38 am - The Stevenson and Vernon Hills high school football teams won’t meet on the field for another few months, but players jump-started the competition Saturday at a sandwich...
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Armed chefs get closer to food they makeJul 20, 2013 6:00 am - AURORA, Ore. It was a lineup of the unlikeliest sort — more than a dozen of Portland's finest farm-to-table chefs shouldering shotguns and taking aim. But these culinary...
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Join our Cook of the Week ChallengeJul 19, 2013 6:00 am - If you’re the type of cook who can look at a jar of salsa and see something more than chips and dip, then you’re just who we need for our third annual Cook of the Week C...
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Magazine fights child obesity 1 recipe at a timeJul 19, 2013 6:00 am - For years, cookbook writer Sally Sampson had wanted to write for children. No one was interested. But by 2010, the time was right. Alarm over rising rates of childhood o...
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Deadline looming for Cook of the Week ChallengeJul 18, 2013 6:00 am - I've been reading through applications for our Cook of the Week Challenge and I realized something's missing: your entry. The contest challenges 16 home cooks to come up...
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Alex’s PestoJul 17, 2013 6:06 am - 1 cup pine nuts 4 ounces basil leaves 2 cloves garlic ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil 3 ounces grated pecorino Romano cheese Pop all the ingredients in a food processor, or...
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Greek Salad VinaigretteJul 17, 2013 6:06 am - ½ cup olive oil About 3 tablespoons red or white wine vinegar plus lemon juice (the ratio of vinegar to juice is up to you) 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme leaves 1 te...
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Lemon Thyme Spice CakeJul 17, 2013 6:06 am - Cake ½ cup whole or low-fat milk 15-20 sprigs lemon thyme, plus a sprig or two for garnish 12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, plus more for the baking pan 2¼ cu...
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Chef du Jour: Mobile chefs brings brick-oven pizza to the massesJul 17, 2013 6:00 am - The dark-haired kid who used to sell you lemonade as you tooled through Downers Grove, today, owns a mobile pizza oven. So instead of quenching customers' thirst with co...
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Herb dilemmas solved by the bunchJul 17, 2013 6:00 am - Come summer, it's the query herb experts and Washington Post Food section staffers that get asked the most: “I have so much (insert name of homegrown herb here). What ca...