Fast Easy Recipes

'Cooks for a Cause' benefits God's Pantry
It is easy to make a great meal with prime beef and ahi tuna, extra-virgin olive oil and sea salt, Chef Ouita Michel said, but can 25 cooks make something great with canned salmon and black beans that will serve four?

H'Artful of Fun celebrates the '50s and its 22nd year
The Living Arts & Science Center will take guests back to the 1950s at its 22nd annual H'Artful of Fun on Feb. 11. Soda fountains will feature black cows, root beer floats and egg creams, and more than 25 chefs and bakers will serve their most tempting desserts.

Cook du Jour Christine Lapointe mixes flavors that give dishes pizzazz
As a youngster, Christine Lapointe exemplified everything culinary, cooking at an early age and professing a true love and talent for the art, thanks mainly to her grandfather, Emile Lapointe, who was always on hand to provide important cooking tips.

Jeff Scott shoots for a 'new vision of the thing' with Notes from a Kitchen
Flip through the weighty two-volume Notes from a Kitchen and you'll feel a bit confused. What is this thing? Cloth-bound and covered in scrawled handwriting, the book looks like a coffee table tour diary of a rock star. The subtitle doesn't do much to clear things up: "a journey inside culinary obsession." Turn a few pages and you see a bourbon glass set atop a bunch of notebooks, perfectly ...

Ervolino: When Sinatra, Liz Taylor and others died, Frank Decaro was collecting recipes for 'The Dead Celebrity ...
Can you remember what you were doing when you heard that Elizabeth Taylor died? Or Frank Sinatra ? Or Rock Hudson?

Boston and New York -- two great foo(tball)d towns
Typically on this week prior to the Super Bowl, this space is devoted to food that one might find in the host city.

Taming of the chew
Yes, you can work magic with lesser cuts of meat. Ever tried dunking meat in Coca-Cola?

Madison eats agenda: Ports at Wollersheim, Fish 'amp; Burger Nights, Bookless
This coming week, in events that get to your heart through your stomach.

Make Matt Preston's fav BBQ sauce
TOMATO sauce is far more than just a splotching on your bag of hot chips or a dolloping on the pie.

Best Of Jackson 2012: Food & Drink
Best Chef: Craig Noone Parlor Market (115 W. Capitol St., 601-360-0090, http://www.parlormarket.com ) It might seem odd to think a chef could catalyze a movement. But Jackson native Craig Noone was not just any chef.