The Seattle Times

Set the holiday table with a new entree creation. Instead of plain roast turkey, try basting a turkey breast with herb butter, a spice rub or the following special basting...

Nearly every parenting magazine and daytime talk show recommends a list of toys this season. They're joined by a host of non-profit organizations rating toys. This year there's even an...

For sale: your toddler's name, birth date, sex, address, phone number and family income. Who's buying? Anyone with a few hundred dollars and a product to sell. Commercial list brokers...

Sweaters? So five minutes ago. Gloves? Passe. What to give this holiday season? Try cold, hard plastic. For the first time, gift cards are expected to replace apparel as the...

The message is omnipresent: Magazine covers showing off perfect bodies with their six-pack abs and slim thighs. Before-and-after photographs selling quick weight loss or the latest infomercial gadget. A popular...

A really great grilled cheese sandwich is hard to find. But a really great grilled cheese is not hard to make, and its secrets have been disclosed in a tempting...

It's hard to beat weight machines, treadmills, stair-steppers and the like for a serious home workout, but those things take up space--especially when you backslide and no longer use them....

There are few contemporary American works of fiction as humorously erudite or eccentrically ambitious as Eric Kraft's cycle of novels, "The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences and Observations of Peter Leroy."...

Consider the pig. The animal's intelligence and cleanliness are often -- wrongfully -- maligned. And most people think it makes a better pork roast than pet. Judy Woods considers the...

The quest for the perfect breast has come full circle. Even as checks from Dow Corning slip into mailboxes this month, finally settling thousands of silicone lawsuits, plastic surgeons and...