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Quality friends make good Valentires ... sweet
When you've got a few quality friends in your corner, it's easy to spread the love on Valentine's Day. Take your friends over at Nordic Ware, for instance. (They were good friends of our mothers and grandmothers, too.

What would you choose?
Over dinner a couple of weeks back, some friends and I got into a rather breathless discussion after one of the girls asked “would you rather enjoy an evening of love or a really good meal?” Take our survey, inside.

Valentine's Gifts 2012
Cut flowers and pot plants are by far the most appropriate Valentine's gifts.

Ex-country club chef serves international cuisine in own restaurant
Born in Germany and classically trained as a chef there and in Switzerland, Andreas Thon created dishes primarily for members and guests at private clubs after coming to the United States. After pleasing diners in exclusive venues such as Oceanside Country Club in Ormond Beach, the Memphis Redbirds' minor league baseball team's stadium-based VIP club and Sugar Mill Country Club in New Smyrna ...

Super menu: East Coast meets Midwest for Super Bowl eating
Two East Coast football teams will travel to the Midwest to face off Sunday for the 46th Super Bowl, played in Indianapolis.

Fungus Foray: Santa Cruz Fungus Fair highlights the culinary joys of wild mushrooms
SANTA CRUZ -- Wild mushrooms can have the sinister mystique of a fairy ring on a moonless night. But these often-feared fungi are suffering from a bad case of publicity.

FYI-Food: Jan. 18, 2012
Weekly news briefs for Southwest Florida foodies.

Victorian chef Auguste Escoffier was a culinary pioneer who changed the way we approach food
He may have inadvertently paved the way for McDonald's, but great Victorian chef Auguste Escoffier was so slight a man that he couldn't even reach the stove. He had platform shoes made and went on to cook his way into culinary history.

Chef Auguste Escoffier changed how we look at cooks, cooking, food
He may have inadvertently paved the way for McDonald’s, but great Victorian chef Auguste Escoffier was so slight a man that he couldn’t even reach the stove.

Homeplate: Reader suggests lighter oyster dish version
Last week's oyster casserole was rich with butter and cream, and as Henriette den Ouden of Habanera Farm in Tyaskin pointed out, it wasn't for everyone.