Charles Leroux

This past weekend in Chicago, some 25,000 book industry insiders flocked to McCormick Place, and an estimated 100,000 readers, collectors, sellers and authors mixed along what once was a strip...

If you Google the Web for "Bento box," you'll come across sites for software to help organize data. This is appropriate in that, for generations, the divided containers called Bento...

Ask someone of Greek ancestry to recommend a place to go for a good bowl of Avgolemono--that's egg lemon soup, the restorative dish that does for Greeks what chicken soup...

Bacalao (or Baccala or Bacalhau, depending on the homeland of the recipe or the restaurant) is cod that has been salted and dried, giving it a shelf life equal to...

Once upon a time in America, Chinese food meant chop suey, chow mein and egg foo yung. Though now far out of favor with foodistas, such cuisine got a lot...

Let's start at the beginning. There is evidence that, for nearly 2 million years, hominoids have used toothpicks. Also, for thousands of years, the aboriginal people of Australia have found...

Pyzy is so authentically Polish that out of 70 Web sites produced from an Internet search for the dish, only one turned up in English. There was one site that...

Even newspaper writers had roommates in college. Here are some of our staff's memories about those with whom they shared those intimate quarters. HER NAME WAS LAURA. SHE WAS PREPPY...

In Mexico and much of South America, when Dad gathers the family or a bunch of hungry friends around the backyard parilla (grill), it's often for parillada (par-ree-YAH-dah). A step...

"Tenth-Inning Home Run Downs Gnats." Though it sounds like the best news of the past weekend, when swarms of gnats invaded Cubs games, Venetian Night, a jazz fest in Skokie...