One afternoon in April 1950, the late Mary Blue, former food editor of the Southeast Missourian, was browsing in the book department of the downtown St. Louis Famous-Barr store. She was approached by ...

Irma Rombauer first published "The Joy of Cooking" in 1931 with her daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, who updated each subsequent edition until 1975. Marion's son, Ethan Becker, returned the book to ...

After eight hours, the meat was still firm, so I allowed additional time for its collagen to dissolve. Two hours later, we ...

Cookbook covers can be like optical illusions. Take “Microwave Cooking for One,” which features the author, Marie T. Smith, alone with some platters of color-saturated food. Some readers may see ...

While seated in prayer last week prior to the start of the annual confession and reconciliation services at our tiny All Saints Catholic Church in San Pierre, I was reading through the 2023 “Little ...