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Canned or Fresh, Tuna Revisited

Childhood is full of memories and for most of us those memories include foods that we just couldn’t stand eating. Whether your parents were generally good cooks like mine, or not so good, there was...

At the end of the day, men aren’t all that complicated. Whether it be your husband, brother, or even your dad, men are simple creatures with fairly simple tastes. With that in mind, when trying to...

“I like New York in June. How ‘bout you?” As soon as the weather is warm enough to entice slow moving foot traffic to make it worth closing down about five blocks of Broadway, the street fairs come...

Last week I discussed the "to bean or not to bean?" debate regarding Texas chili. I came down on the side of "no-beans," and debuted my own Texas chili recipe. My recipe makes a lot of chili, and as a...

Its misshapen, wrinkled, dimpled peel caught her eye. Did that spotty, yellowish-green appearance seem out of place among the other attractive fruit in the produce department? Evidently, since my kids...

We have always known that the key to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Thinking back to how our mothers cooked for our fathers, it might have been that very trick that we have to thank for bringing...

I’m convinced that Wal-Mart is only open after 9:30pm. That's because that’s the earliest I’ve ever been. Wal-Mart, or really any grocery store after 8:00pm, is a very dismal place to be. The fluorescent...

After all the spring cleaning I accomplished a few weeks ago, I have one last cleaning task left to complete ñ organizing the spice drawer. A while back, when I had a bit more free time on my hands...

Amidst the power tools and golf gear, every year around Father’s Day there's an abundance of advertisements for grills and their various accessories. I realize that most ad agency copywriting done in...

Not only is Father’s Day right around the corner, so is the first day of summer, or Summer Solstice as traditional cultures have referred to it through millennia. But how does Father’s day take shape...

Every year in June, around Father’s Day time, a friend of my dad’s gets a group together to charter a boat off the coast of New Jersey to fish for bluefish. My first and last official ocean going fishing...

Whether his choice of fuel is charcoal, gas or just plain wood, most dads love food cooked over an open flame. With over 15 million grills and smokers sold in the United States in 2005, grilling certainly...

Coming up on Sunday, we have Father’s Day, one of the best days of the year to cook out on the grill. It’s a great time for your kids to get together and plan a meal for dear old dad. And what the...

Father’s Day is this Sunday, so it’s time for me to thank that man in my life who had such a profound culinary influence on me: Grandpa Ted. From as far back I can remember, my grandfather and I have...

It is not often that a Korean market evokes memories of my California childhood, but that is precisely what happened a few weeks ago. Having stepped into the busy market in search of beef short ribs,...

When it comes to Father’s Day, we all know that grilling is not only an option, but a requirement. Barbecue has stood the test of time as the one of the manliest of activities and for good reason. ...