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TIGARD, Ore., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Casual, comfort flavor cues will be driving restaurant trends in 2009, predicts Flavor & The Menu magazine, in its annual selection of Top 10 Flavor Trends. Consulting with a team of restaurant industry experts, Flavor & The Menu's editors forecast, among other menu trends, a French-cuisine comeback in the form of more approachable (and affordable) bistro and brasserie fare, an "urban" expansion of traditional, widely-accepted barbecue flavors...

It need not be the season to use sugar in large quantities, a U.S.endocrinologist says. There are ways to keep the holidays sweet but healthy suggests Dr. Nicholas Jospe of the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. Sugar isn't necessarily bad -- it just has to be managed, Jospe says in a statement. He suggests it is possible to resist the onslaught of sweet treats and make the holidays healthy. In fact, some traditional holiday treats -- pumpkin and sweet potatoes for...

On Thanksgiving Day, crown your feast with a delicious dessert, complements of the experts at FoodNetwork.com. Thanksgiving guests may be tempted to skip the turkey and head straight for the dessert table! Find classic recipes for your favorite Thanksgiving desserts and new twists on other Thanksgiving sweets at the award-winning site, FoodNetwork.com. (http://www.foodnetwork.com/topics/thanksgiving-dessert/index.html) When browsing this year's selection of tasty treat options, don't...

CHICAGO, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- With anticipated sales of more than $23 billion by 2010 for the gift food industry,* it's clear Americans' love of giving edible presents is going strong. The good news this holiday season, it will be easier to deliver America's best regional foods anywhere in the U.S., thanks to Foods Across America(TM) (http://www.foodsacrossamerica.com/). (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081113/NYFNSP04) From Chicago's famous Vienna Beef hot dogs and...

The seventh annual Soul Food Festival will begin with a parade at noon today on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Green Cove Springs. Opening ceremony is at 1 p.m. at Vera Francis Hall Park. There will be more than 40 food, arts, crafts and informational vendors, as well as children's activities, men's softball tournament, sweet potato pie contest and live entertainment. Rap artists and R&B performers are expected. For more information, contact Kevin Spencer at 626-2247 or Felecia Hampshire...

By STICKLEY, Marcus Afro soul funk 11-piece the Hot Grits play Nelson tonight and frontman Barnie Duncan is promising some revelatory experiences. Marcus Stickley reports. -------------------- Barnie Duncan says he had an experience like becoming a born- again Christian while listening to a cassette that had been dropped into his backpack by a friend of his dad. This was eight years ago, after a trip to Rome, before he became a singer for the Hot Grits. He has since converted the...

THOMASVILLE, Ga. - Pecan grower Tom Stone was stranded at a vacation home on the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Fay waltzed across northern Florida. When he returned to southern Georgia on Sunday - even then finding some major roads blocked by downed trees and power lines - he found his well-tended orchards in shambles. "I was devastated," the Thom-as County grower said Monday. "We've lost 50 percent of the crop. We knew we were going to get a little rain, but we didn't know we were...

By Chris Ledermuller Failing marriages. Suicide attempts. Intimate tension. Unfulfilled dreams. Barbie doll heads that well, the less said, the better. "Wonder of the World" serves them up in bite-sized humor nuggets. They go well with aspic. The meat jelly sets in motion more than a dozen madcap vignettes that put tense emotional situations in the service of short, rapid- fire gags. With the assembly-line wackiness, coupled with Little Fish Theatre's garage atmosphere, "Wonder" is...

By Breazeale, Linda Strong market prices and the ability to cope with less moisture than most crops have Mississippi's peanut growers expanding their acreage again this year. Peanuts have been increasingly popular since the Farm Bill ended the quota system in 2002 and allowed farmers to plant as many acres in peanuts as they wanted. Mike Howell is the area agronomics agent with Mississippi Slate University's Extension Service based in Harrison County. He said some growers are trying...

By Opelika-Auburn News, Ala. Jul. 31--Nobody enjoys being called fat. It's an insult. But when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Alabama fat earlier this month, it's nothing more than the cold, hard truth. According to the government survey, Alabama is the second-most obese state in the U.S., trailing only neighbor Mississippi. The report shows that 30.3 percent of Alabama adults are obese, compared to 32 percent in Mississippi, which has been the nation's most obese...