I was charged with providing lunch for several kids (ages 4, 6, 7, and 9) a few days ago and prepared for them one of my favorite quickie lunches - chicken and apple quesadillas. The kids gobbled them up, and one of them, Teddy, exclaimed loudly after the first one, “Elise, you HAVE to [...]

A local man swears by the “Fast Food Diet” and says anyone could can lose weight and eat healthy at fast food restaurants.
At 273 pounds, Eric Foster hit bottom, “To be honest, I’d get winded peeling an orange!” Unmotivated to work-out, he turned to his diet. He knew cutting down on carbohydrates worked for him [...]

The name, ‘tapa’, originates from the word tapar, to cover. Speculations on the origin of tapas range from the practical to the mythological. A popular theory is that when the 13th-century King Alfonso fell ill, he was prescribed small bites of food with wine to aid his recovery. After discovering the benefits of snacking, he [...]