DAYTONA BEACH — Red-hat ladies were there; mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces and sisters were there; and, yes, there were even a few men in the crowd for the Taste of Home Cooking School at the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center on Saturday afternoon.

NEW ULM Want to cook for a living? Mary Bartz did. She cooked for one of the most famous names in cooking, testing recipes in the kitchens at Betty Crocker, for years.

The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line has helped new and veteran cooks through their turkey-cooking dilemmas for many years, but now its not just talk. Butterball has expanded its formats to include a TurkeyTalk podcast, a blog and a bilingual Web site that answers dozens of turkey-cooking questions.

Portland ranks No. 2 on Cooking Light magazine’s list of 20 cities that provide the resources people need to have healthy lives.

Real and wannabe chefs will be cooking up a storm at Victim Services of Peel’s second annual Celebrity Chef Challenge. Executive chefs, celebrities and other prominent members of the community will present their signature dishes to guests who will sample the food and vote for their favourite.

Jon Gerst, 23, teen-services supervisor at The Mandel JCC, began his job just four months ago, and he is already cooking. We surveyed area Jewish teens to see what type of activities they would like to see at the JCC, says Gerst.

CORVALLIS Sitting in the front row of the LaSells Stewart Center on Thursday night, Marcy McOwen and her friend Lorraine Barnett, both of Albany, sat looking eagerly at the stage, waiting for the show to start.

Johan Santana had a special delivery with his $137.5 million left arm on Saturday morning. Wearing a chef’s hat and apron, the Mets’ new ace posed throwing an orange during a photoshoot for the team’s second-annual GourMets charity cookbook to be available in mid-May.

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