Food

One of the powers of food I appreciate most is its ability to transport – how eating cinnamon toast or chicken noodle soup brings me right back to my childhood, or enjoying a lobster roll puts me on a dock in New England on a sunny summer day.

While I love to linger in the kitchen and derive a meditative calm from the precision of dicing, slicing and mincing, I can’t always manage the time or effort. After a long day, my resolve to pick up my chef’s knife fizzles before I even step into the kitchen.

The first time I had grenadine – and the first time you probably had grenadine – was in a kiddie cocktail. A Shirley Temple. (Or a Roy Rogers, if the restaurant believed in rigid gender binaries.) It felt thrilling, because it was your first brush with the adult bar, a tiny act of culinary transgression. Grenadine! That was the stuff grown-ups used. Pour a little into a glass of soda, drop in a cherry, add a paper umbrella or a plastic sword, and suddenly you were the most sophisticated 6-year-old in the dining room.

Beans, beans the musical fruit ... or should I say, magical? We all know legumes are loaded with fiber and healthy for us, but I recently discovered one hard-shelled variety that is especially adept at warming hearts. Time to spill the beans. Anything but stinky, this adventure began when my mother, Mary Lou, called to serenade yours truly with a peppy rendition of “Happy Birthday.”

Riddle me this: What do you get when you mix the Jolly Green Giant with a Hershey’s chocolate cow on Valentine’s Day? Why, a giant chocolate kiss, of course. We offer a recipe for such kisses, just in time for that special day. And fret not, giants and chocolate cows aren’t needed to make them.

When Matt Lazarus and Jennifer Hansen purchased Barrelhouse Pub & Pizza in Cheney in 2024, they brought plenty of business experience to the table.

I could feel the love filling the kitchen when I served these panna cotta cups to my husband and daughter. Each looked at me with appreciation and delight, nodding and uttering murmurs of joy as they relished each spoonful. A warm satisfaction washed over me as I relished their enjoyment.

Like so many Americans right now, I’m intently focused on the big football game coming up, eager to cheer on the teams with my fellow gridiron die-hards! I want to get their take on some of my most pressing questions – like, is halftime when they resurface the field and send out the Zamboni? Once the Seahawks goalie gets into the red zone, does someone throw a penalty kick? When do the Patriots yell “fore”?

Restaurants run in Vanessa Orozco’s family.

Spring is still more than a month away but Starbucks is already counting the days, teasing its spring menu amid the widespread winter weather.

This week, the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks will compete in Super Bowl 60 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

Today’s menu features four recipes that can bring some delicious eating to any wintertime dinner or lunch. Here are two main dishes, including Chicken à la King, and a couple of complementary side dishes. This version of Chicken à la King is regal eating on a peasant’s budget, and it’s comparatively easy to prepare.

A new Dutch Bros location is expected to open on the South Hill by June 2026, becoming the coffee franchise’s 14th location in the Spokane area.

Spokane’s only authentic Italian sandwich shop boasts big taste from a small space.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins made waves this week with claims that the Trump administration’s revamped food pyramid leaves plenty of room for Americans to maintain a healthy diet for as little as $3 a meal.

Spokane’s first dumpling restaurant has opened its doors inside Brick West Brewing.

Chicken soup is known as a balm for the cold and sniffly, the kind of food that can soothe our comfort-seeking souls. Sometimes, though, a long-simmered pot can feel out of reach. For sick days and snow-day lunches, a can or a jar tucked into your pantry might be just the thing you need.

Sporks are multifaceted. You can slurp up soup or use them to chow down on salad. They also, at least to Doyle Wheeler, possess a nostalgic element.

You know sometimes when you meet someone through a friend, and it suddenly occurs to you that you like the friend of your friend way better than your original pal? That’s kind of how it felt when an experiment in which I planned to sample an odd TikTok food trend wound up introducing me to my new culinary crush.