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  • Bravo's 'Top Chef' heads to New Orleans

    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...

  • Conn. craft beer industry launches promo campaign

    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...

  • White House: Wrong for IRS to target tea party

    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...

  • Whole Foods mixes up chicken, vegan salads

    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...

  • A kebab as happy on the grill as under the broiler

    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...

  • Tour promoting urban gardening comes to Flint

    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...

  • Bentley signs law to legalize home brewing in Ala.

    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,...

  • Louisville distillery joins Kentucky Bourbon Trail

    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...

  • Pasta carbonara remade as a delicious summer salad

    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...

  • East Tennessee chef given James Beard award

    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...