ANG POMPANO :   I was thinking about the protagonist of my soon-to-be-released book,  Diet of Death , Quincy Lazzaro. Quincy writes a huge...

From Peg Cochran Growing up, there was no way I would touch pea soup.  Yuck!  It's green.  My first exposure came from the canned vari...

LUCY BURDETTE : I'm sure no one's going to feel too sorry for me, but sometimes the research for the food critic mysteries is hard ...

by Sheila Connolly Pease Porridge hot, Pease Porridge cold, Pease Porridge in the Pot Nine Days old, Spell me that in four Letters? I will...

Sometime back I posted my go-to recipe for split pea soup and lamented the fact that it wasn't vegetarian because I start with a chicken...

After all my complaining about hot and humid weather, Mother Nature flipped a switch and shot us straight into temperatures cold enough to t...

News first!! Today is the official release day for Krista's newest book - THE DIVA PAINTS THE TOWN . I know I can't wait to get my h...