Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bravo's hit cooking competition show "Top Chef" is heading to New Orleans. The cable TV network issued a statement Friday that "the vibrant food scene of New Orleans will be a welcome addition in the 11th season of the series." The statement also said Bravo is working in...

Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — From Stamford up to Granby and as far east as Pawcatuck, microbreweries that make specialty craft beers are putting Connecticut on beer-drinkers' maps. Without the advertising budgets of the big domestic beer companies, microbrewers rely on grass-roots marketing and...

Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says it was inappropriate for the Internal Revenue Service to target tea party groups for additional reviews during last year's presidential election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. White House spokesman Jay Carney said he did not know...

Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Whole Foods Market Inc. said that labels on a chicken salad and those on a vegan version were reversed at some of its cold food bars in the Northeast. The mislabeled salads — a curried chicken salad and a vegan curried "chick'n" salad — were sold in 15 stores in...

Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

The trouble with spring is that we get eager to grill, but we can't always count on the weather to cooperate. Admittedly, I am a fair weather griller. I know some people who gleefully brave blizzards for the joy of putting meat to searing grate. I simply am not so hardy a man. A bit of a chill...

Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A company that's leading a cross-country trek to encourage urban gardening and deliver plants and produce is stopping at a Flint school. The Burpee Home Gardens "Grow Anywhere Tour" plans to park Friday at Flint's Durant-Tuuri-Mott Elementary School. Organizers say they...

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed legislation into law Thursday to allow people to make beer and wine at home starting immediately, making the state the last to act to legalize the hobby. Bentley spokeswoman Jennifer Ardis said the governor, who doesn't drink alcohol,...

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's mostly rustic bourbon sector is spreading to the shadows of Louisville's skyscrapers, where a tiny distillery being developed by the maker of Evan Williams bourbon will become a big-city stop on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail that draws hundreds of thousands of...

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

Pasta carbonara — richly cheesy, creamy and studded with crisped pancetta — is easily one of the most comforting of pasta dishes. The only trouble is, with the onset of warmer weather we tend to crave salads more than steaming bowls of pasta. So for this recipe, we decided to have it both...

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An East Tennessee chef has been given an elite award in the culinary world. Executive Chef Joseph Lenn of Blackberry Farm in Blount County east of Maryville was named James Beard Best Chef Southeast on Monday in New York. Lenn, who is a Knoxville native, was a...