Food news and views

Not all that long ago, many Americans thought of Chinese food as fried rice, chow mein and orange chicken.

The greatest, and perhaps only, cruelty of brunch is choosing between the salty and the sweet.

Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether a form of caffeine sold in lipstick-shaped containers is safe for consumers.

Jason Farmer / Staff Photographer Old Forge resident Nancy Rafferty, left, was the winner of this week's Local Flavor: Recipes We Love contest, thanks to her family's cherished Passatelli Soup recipe.

Kathryn Dysart, left, and Mimi Edelman, right, co-chairs of Slow Food Metro North, present Stephen Mancini and Eric Gabrynowicz, left to right in center, with the Slow Food Snail of Approval.

Pancakes and sausages for dinner may not immediately come to mind when thinking of Lent, but Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day, is held the day before Ash Wednesday at churches across the country each year.

As humans, we sometimes pay a price for drinking alcohol - in hangovers, or worse.

Members of the media wearing protective suits and masks report, escorted by an official of Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, second left, at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Feb.

Even mild dehydration can alter a person's mood, energy level and ability to think clearly, but the effect might be more acute in women, U.S. researchers said.

If you fall somewhere in the middle - if you want to drink some Hurricanes or Abitas, and wear some beads but keep your shirt on - and can't make it to New Orleans for the parades, here are a few places around the country that might almost make you feel that you're there.