Forget the love angle on spring. This is the season when a cook’s thoughts turn to entertaining. Right now there is no end of excuses to feed friends and family, whether for Mother’s Day or graduation ...

Spring has arrived in earnest, and that means a new crop of seasonal produce is at the market. I was thrilled to find a batch of fiddleheads and promptly planned a spring chicken dinner around them.

As the chicken roasts, I add the other vegetables depending on their thickness and cook time. Carrots and radishes can take the heat but sliced bell pepper and asparagus should go nearly at the end.

For years, I’ve avoided chicken like the plague. Alarming articles about food safety and inhumane raising practices (some in this magazine) put me off, and so did the plain fact that chicken had lost ...

"Well, she's certainly no spring chicken!" We've all heard the expression leveled at a woman of a certain age trying to hide under youthful clothes. No one really thinks about the expression's origin, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 14—Are there any spring chickens out there? Why yes! and a lot of them were hatched by Laurel County's Poultry Pirates 4-H ...

If Dinah Washington had ever recorded a song about stew in springtime, the first line would have to be, “What a difference a name makes.” Blanquette, navarin, ragout and fricassee are all stews but ...

Poor chicken. It’s forever been the butt of jokes, maligned for being safe, unimaginative — boring. But this season, some of the hottest chefs have turned the bird into something worth squawking about ...