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The owner of El Charro in downtown Mesa wants to retire and hopes someone will step forward to buy the popular Mexican food restaurant.

JAMES CITY — Want to own the machine that famed Chef Marcel Desaulniers used to test all the ice cream he used for recipes in his best-selling cookbook, “Death By Chocolate”?

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The Courier-Post is holding its annual Holiday Cookie Exchange and Contest, and we want your delicious recipes.

Fondue can be expensive to have at a restaurant – and then we often leave feeling kind of ripped off. After all, aren’t you paying them to do the cooking when you go out to eat?

Jack Tweed, former owner of 411 Restaurant, has opened a new eatery in Maryville. He opened Tweeds Five Point Restaurant, located at 1420 E. Broadway Ave., Maryville, on Nov. 3 and has been growing a clientele ever since.

Iam what you might call a cautious food chemist. I love doing recipes that have lots of ingredients in them, but I’m not much of an experimenter. I envy my wife because she is more free-spirited in the kitchen, blithely throwing ingredients together without having a recipe to follow.[...]

Thanksgiving is over, December is a couple days away, and that means it’s just about the season for Christmas parties. But can you still make it a great party on a budget?

To “devil” food means to make it spicy andor hot with seasonings. In the South, that often means mustard is involved. So says Damon Lee Fowler, a nationally recognized expert on Southern food and its history and the author of several cookbooks.