Judy Hevrdejs

The chicken wing is bar food, a toxic-orange mismatch of improbable chicken pieces that imitate Earth-based sustenance. (Look, don't argue.) The chicken wing is not pretty. The chicken wing is...

At first glance, it's a mismatch of epic proportions. One, after all, is a cultural heavyweight, a place famous for its sinful food and its scrumptious music and its freewheeling...

Assembling canned or frozen ingredients into a quick supper won't earn you "serious cook" credentials. Then again, a well-stocked pantry (with a little help from the freezer and produce bin)...

Love TV's reality shows, but avoided casting calls for singers ("American Idol"), pro cooks ("Top Chef") and tall women ("America's Next Top Model")? Maybe this sounds sweet: Chef Gordon Ramsay...

A bumper crop of Oregon and Washington pears (Anjou, Bartlett, Seckel and more) is available in markets to add to salads (with blue cheese, perhaps), a fruit crisp or almond...

Just one fatal flaw -- a ripped lining, an outdated shoulder pad -- can banish once-loved garments to the back of closets, where they languish, left for dead, for years....

We're no longer surprised by surcharges tacked on by airlines, hotels, car-rental companies. We're even used to taxi surcharges -- those tied to fluctuating gasoline prices, toll-bridge fees, etc. That...

We're no longer surprised by surcharges tacked on by airlines, hotels, car-rental companies. We're even used to taxi surcharges -- those tied to fluctuating gasoline prices, toll-bridge fees, etc. That...

A gift from the kitchen is so often a gift from the heart. We cook for those we love, sometimes saying more through the roast goose or potato latkes than...

'The Iraqi Cookbook' by Lamees Ibrahim (Interlink Books, $35) What it is: An expatriate Iraqi living in London, Lamees Ibrahim takes us on an appetizer-to-beverage tour of Iraq's cuisine. She...