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How to create a better food system in 2013 (+video)

Our worldwide food system needs an overhaul. Here are 13 steps to change food policies and improve lives.
23 of the best new and upcoming cookbooks/food books for the holidays

A list of the best new and upcoming cookbooks to diversify your own culinary repertoire or offer as holiday gifts.
6 top food memoirs
In Pictures: America's Food Renaissance
Affordable colleges: a new tool for cost comparison

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Stir It Up! Travel: New Orleans and shrimp remoulade

Day 2 of a culinary travel adventure to New Orleans included a lesson in making a four-course meal at the New Orleans Cooking Experience cooking school.
How to create a better food system in 2013 (+video)

Our worldwide food system needs an overhaul. Here are 13 steps to change food policies and improve lives.
Stir It Up! Cookbook review: Cowgirl Chef by Ellise Pierce

A homesick Texan finds home in Paris by recreating Tex-Mex favorites with Parisian ingredients.
23 of the best new and upcoming cookbooks/food books for the holidays

A list of the best new and upcoming cookbooks to diversify your own culinary repertoire or offer as holiday gifts.
Stir It Up! Two cookbooks to menu-plan Thanksgiving

The trick is to prepare as many dishes as possible in the week leading up to Thanksgiving Day.
Stir It Up! Butter poached tilapia with thyme and mixed greens

Chunks of fresh fish are poached in butter and olive oil over very low heat with fresh thyme, salt and pepper and served over a simple salad for a quick, cool summer meal.
Why some for-profit colleges could lose eligibility for federal aid

Some programs at for-profit colleges aren’t satisfying the Obama administration’s ‘gainful employment’ rule for graduates, according to new data from the US Education Department.
New books transform your kitchen into a lab (+video)

Food science: New books invite science into your kitchen and help cook modern cuisine in a simple way.
Bachelor's degree of doubt: Culinary student takes kitchen over cubicle

With the value of a bachelor's degree in doubt, paths around the traditional college degree are multiplying: Turner Jankins chose culinary school over other options.
Modern Parenthood Father's Day gifts: personalized, stereotyped for 70 million dads

Father's Day gifts: You can't buy a nap for him, so try any one of 70 million personalized, stereotyped gifts online.
Latin America Monitor Gringo cafe: A restaurateur starts his dream cafe in Brazil.

Sam Flowers opened his dream cafe in Rio de Janeiro without guidance on how to get a visa, or adjust to 'Brazil costs.' Two years later he helps others pursue their Brazilian business dreams.
Employee benefits: Rising costs will eat into your paycheck

Businesses are restoring employee benefits eliminated during the recession. But other employee benefits are going to cost workers extra.
Culinary schools: Are some not worth the dough?

Culinary schools reach pending settlement with dissatisfied students, who complained culinary schools lured them in with false promises.
6 top food memoirs

In this era of the superstar chef there is no shortage of food-related memoirs, all telling the stories of how these many culinary geniuses found their calling. However, only a handful have the flavor and style that make them stand out from the pack. Here are six that we're calling the best.
Gen Y becomes Gen G – the gourmet generation

For many young people, cooking is the hot new trend – becoming at once theater, entertainment, self-definition, status, and creative expression. Why Millennials wield spatulas and smoked paprika.
America's new culinary renaissance

We're becoming a nation of food fanatics, signing up for cooking classes, turning into gourmets in the kitchen, and making dining in or out the equivalent of a cultural event. Is America the new France?
In Pictures: America's Food Renaissance
Affordable colleges: a new tool for cost comparison

Affordable colleges might be easier to track down now with a new online tool out from the US Department of Education, which compares the cost of attending different kinds of institutions. We put together a list of the most and least expensive 4-year or longer institutions, in three categories: public institutions, not-for-profit institutions, and for-profit institutions. Prices are based on the "net cost" of each, which is the average price after grants or scholarship aid is subtracted from the total cost of attendance. Often, the average net cost is quite different from an institution's listed tuition. The numbers here are based on costs for the 2008-2009 academic year.
In Pictures: Way beyond vacation: the 'Eat, Pray, Love' effect
In Pictures: Royal wedding memorabilia
Tips for cake decorating with fondant

Baking and decorating your own cake will give you a real feeling of accomplishment.
In Pictures: Colossal cakes
Hereafter: movie review

Director Clint Eastwood's moody 'Hereafter' tries hard, but veers uncomfortably close to quackery.
3 promising books for October

It's fall – when our thoughts turn to books. If you're looking for some good literary companionship for these shorter days and longer nights, here are three attractive titles coming this October.
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