Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Tuna suffers a poor fate in most American kitchens, where the canned variety is relentlessly and unimaginatively composted into sandwich fillings and noodle casseroles. But fresh tuna, hearty, meaty and...

How many times have you opened a can of tomato paste, measured out a tablespoon or two and then thrown away the rest of the can three weeks later? No...

Drinking the Rain By Alix Kates Shulman Farrar Straus Giroux, 242 pages, $20 Ten years ago at 50, Alix Kates Shulman hit a critical period in her life. At the...

Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life By John Mortimer Viking, 260 pages, $23.95 John Mortimer's a pretty interesting guy-a successful British barrister who, at the height of his...

Lentils have been called "convenience legumes" because these tiny, disk-shaped seeds cook quickly without the soaking required by their firmer relatives-dried beans and peas. Their ease of use, distinctive peppery...

Stumble into a Los Angeles emergency room, see a doc named Lance Gentile and you never know-your quirk or ailment just might end up on TV. About a month ago,...

When former Pittsburgher Rich Creehan and his wife decided to buy a house in Michigan, they followed what has become standard advice in the real estate industry: They had it...

Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball By Kathleen Brady Hyperion, 397 pages, $24.95 Nobody's Fool: The Lives of Danny Kaye By Martin Gottfried Simon & Schuster, 352 pages, $24 We...

When Andre Braugher methodically surveys a murder scene on NBC's low-rated but critically acclaimed "Homicide: Life on the Street," it could just as easily be an invitation to dance. As...

Sweeping through the aisles of this spacious new Super Kmart Center in Moon, Penn., Irene Poljak tosses some bananas and a blouse into the jumble of groceries in her shopping...