Nazdar, The BNI Bash dinner and social is schedule 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28, at VFW Post 8681 on County Line Road and Drayton Street. Dinner will consist of spaghetti with all the trimmings. ...more

February 22, 2009

Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. Most of the fields in eastern Hillsborough County have been fallow since late spring, when the sheets of black plastic were pulled up and burned, the neat rows flattened, the commercial berry gardens gone to weed. ...more

September 3, 2008

Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. Most of the fields in eastern Hillsborough County have been fallow since late spring, when the sheets of black plastic were pulled up and burned, the neat rows flattened, the commercial berry gardens gone to weed. ...more

September 3, 2008

Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. ...more

August 27, 2008

Friday morning, the crowd started trickling into the food pantry at Dayspring Presbyterian Church in Spring Hill. ...more

August 24, 2008

I was surprised by your recommendation not to freeze rice and pasta. I freeze them often. Is there a reason I shouldn't? ...more

July 16, 2008

DRINK UP AND SALUTE God bless the French. First they teach Thomas Jefferson about cuisine. Then they give us a big ol' statue. (We won't even get into the whole french fries thing. For that achievement alone, we should rename a state. Frenchissippi, maybe.) Now they're celebrating All Things American with POP Champagne in petite red, white and blue, starred-and-striped bottles. The limited-edition bottles retail for $14.95. Available at www.sherry -lehmann.com or on store shelves beginning Fourth of July weekend. ...more

June 11, 2008