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LOS ANGELES -- On a rainy Saturday afternoon in late March, a block of East Hollywood is unusually quiet but for the corner of Fountain Avenue and North Edgemont Street. There, a line snakes halfway around the perimeter of...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Do you feel ashamed when you toss out rotting food? Maybe it's a produce bag of slimy green onions decomposing in the bowels of your fridge. Or a forgotten bin of leftovers that would have made a terrific ...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- The newest cookbook from Eckert’s, the family-owned group of farms in Illinois and Kentucky, isn’t exactly a cookbook.

“The publisher calls it a bookazine, because it is a magazine-book hybrid,” says ...Read more

"It's impossible not to love someone who made toast for you," Nigel Slater, in "Toast"

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Bruschetta is toast with a fancy Italian name. A wonderful appetizer at cocktail gatherings and backyard barbecues, in our home,...Read more

Q: What's with this new eco-friendly gas blend with the yellow handle? Will it harm a non-flex fuel engine? It's 50 cents cheaper.

R.M., Elbert, Colorado

A: According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Experiences, like fine wine, can get better with age.

That's why it took author George Sorensen decades before he wrote his fifth book, "Hot Dish Confidential: That Year My Friends Taught Me to Cook," which...Read more

When it comes to Chinese comfort food, nothing beats a really good bowl of hand-pulled noodles or a steaming, silky bowl of mapo tofu. Yet our love affair with Chinese food often centers around dumplings.

Whether they're ...Read more

Breakfast in a cup certainly has its place: On a hurried morning into work, at a hotel that doesn’t offer breakfast, in a college dorm.

Though not cheap, these scrambles from Jimmy Dean are full of flavor (probably ...Read more

While a lot of us believe we're saving money when we buy things on sale, it's not true unless we actually save the difference between the regular price and the sale price. That could be stopping at the bank on the way home...Read more

For years I had a love-hate relationship with cast iron cookware. Now that I have more cooking experience, I adore cast iron.

I have to tell you my cast iron story.

Not long after I moved into my first apartment, my ...Read more

A controversial housing law that abolished single-family zoning across California has been ruled unconstitutional by a Los Angeles County judge — but the narrow ruling is likely to be appealed by the state.

Passed in ...Read more

Ooooh. That’s pretty, isn’t it? It’s the Maserati’s newest EV, the 2025 Maserati GranCabrio Folgore, a pure battery electric, two-door, four-seat convertible, a model in a class of one. It took nearly eight years ...Read more

OAKLAND, California — The first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks in the U.S. is up and running at the Port of Oakland, a baby step toward what hydrogen proponents see as a clean new future for long-...Read more

OAKLAND COUNTY, Michigan — Luxury cars are becoming Brookstone gadget stores on wheels. Who needs to drive them? They’re just fun to play with.

Take the 2024 Genesis G90 sitting in my driveway.

With the key in my ...Read more

The luxury midsize coupe is becoming increasingly popular in the consumer market, and BMW is easily the leader of the pack with its X6. Featured in Grasso's Garage this week is the BMW X6 xDrive40i, adorned in Aventurin ...Read more

The next time you visit Washington, D.C., say a big thank you to James Smithson.

Who? The British ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan will be among four new "workforce hubs" designated to help prepare workers for new manufacturing jobs, the White House said Thursday. The Michigan hub will focus specifically on electric vehicles.

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Mortgage rates in the U.S. increased for a fourth straight week.

The average for a 30-year, fixed loan was 7.17%, up from 7.1% last week, Freddie Mac said in a statement Thursday.

House hunters looking to land a deal ...Read more

Toyota Motor Corp. is moving ahead with plans to manufacture and sell more electric vehicles in the U.S. by investing $1.4 billion at a plant in Indiana, the Japanese carmaker’s second such announcement this year.

The ...Read more

The Salovin family pays $26,000 a year for childcare for their two daughters.

For them, it’s a worthwhile expense, knowing their 1- and 4-year-old girls are at a licensed facility and they can both stay in the workforce...Read more