Our weeknight tables are filled with roast chicken, cod with buttered crumbs, seafood chowders, pork chops, bean dishes with fresh herbs and sausages, and trays of roasted vegetables. At Jim Scherer's photography studio every week in Dorchester, we brainstormed, cooked, and set up food for Jim's handsome shots, which he'll continue to produce for these pages. Even knee-deep in chopped onions or chicken stock, we'll catch each other up on what's going on at home and in our social lives and...

By setting his novel about the wedding night of an inept and burdened virginal couple in July 1962, McEwan may well be said to have invited such a reference, but there are some times when zeitgeist changes very rapidly, seemingly overnight, and what we think of as the '60s is a prime example of this phenomenon. By setting his novel about the wedding night of an inept and burdened virginal couple in July 1962, McEwan may well be said to have invited such a reference, but there are some...

Applebee's Kids' Menu Grilled Chicken Sandwich Chicken Fingers Cheeseburger Macaroni and Cheese (does not include side item) Available sides include applesauce, celery with ranch dressing (likely not the low-cal variety, although I'm sure parents can ask for it), steamed broccoli, or French fries. I'm not talking about the food parents send for lunch, or the food eaten at grandma's house. Applebee's Kids' Menu Grilled Chicken Sandwich Chicken Fingers Cheeseburger Macaroni and Cheese (does...

Advertisement flavorful, with hardened chocolate pieces mixed throughout, but it had a few ice chunks, which really turned me off. Do you love ketchup? Heinz wants to know about your love affair with ketchup and top any commercial you've seen before. A hand-written sign on the counter advertised delicious gelato in french vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, cherry and hazelnut. Gelato - gelati when it's plural - is a very smooth, very rich Italian dessert that resembles ice cream. It's more...

The series is designed to meet the increasing physical and emotional demands placed on caregivers of persons with Alzheimer s disease and related disorders. There will also be a silent auciton of fashion accessories and original purses and a special exhibit of jacquard woven silks created in the former Cheney Mills. This course will empower grandparents to become their family s expert advocate, strengthen parenting skills, cope with changes in the family and provide the techniques to face...

Mike Shaer, the Montana Avenue developer and owner of Computers Unlimited, brought his considerable technological savvy to bear, and he even admitted, quite cheerfully, that he sometimes wades into the Gazette s talkback sections solely to see if he can turn a discussion in a new direction. At last night s Food for Thought event at the library, where the topic for my table was blogging, I found myself sitting next to Mac Oliver, a 94-year-old woman who had no idea what a blog was. A couple...

But all this month, as we traversed the state and surrounding areas, in search of some of the fattest burgers our local chefs and grill gurus had to offer, we steered clear of places like the BK Lounge and Mickey-D's. What did we find? Only the softest buns, from artisanal to brioche, the most diverse of toppings, from avocado salsa to pineapple, and of course, tender, juicy meat, from buffalo to kobe beef to kangaroo. With 20 ounces of the fresh ground, never frozen beef you have plenty...

Napa Valley Register . 'The Produce Bible' an up-to-date guide to using farmers market bounty. Napa Valley Register . 'The Produce Bible' an up-to-date guide to using farmers market bounty. Another contributing factor is fatigue with our complex, rat-race lifestyle and a nostalgic yearning for the values of a slower time when one ate what the earth offered up when it saw fit, and each season s bounty was a refreshing change from the previous one. Another contributing factor is fatigue with...

School activities: Mile for Indoor Track Team-qualified for States, Cross Country-qualified for State Championships, WPIAL Championship Winning 4x800 Meter Relay Team-qualified for Outdoor Track States, Orchestra-1st chair violist, Teen Leadership Council, Math League. School activities: Mile for Indoor Track Team-qualified for States, Cross Country-qualified for State Championships, WPIAL Championship Winning 4x800 Meter Relay Team-qualified for Outdoor Track States, Orchestra-1st chair...