Food: Recipes

Farmers markets have grown like tomatoes in summer during the last five years, with an increasingly food savvy public pushing their numbers up more than 60 percent to 7,175 today.

Raquel Rabade Roque is the first to admit she's no seasoned chef. She's been known to burn meals and, like most working mothers, has mastered the art of slap-dash dinners. Pressed to describe her culinary talents, the longtime bookseller calls ...

This no-cook, 15-minute, summer supper is perfect for a hot night. Plump shrimp layered with vegetables and dressed with a light vinaigrette dressing makes a cool, colorful main dish.

Joel Reznick bends slightly to view the meat cooking furiously on the grill. This is no ordinary burger. It's Reznick's prized recipe, Burger Margarita. The addition of Reznick's homemade pasta sauce to the ground meat, topped with Italian mozzarella, produces ...

Think of a burger patty as a little black dress. It's perfect as is, or you can dress it up for a whole new taste.

For the women behind public radio's show for people who love to eat, the perfect salad is one you simply must eat.

Any way you slice it, the tomato is one confusing comestible.

Who doesn't love a good hot dog? It wouldn't be summer without them.

Half a world away from the secretive farms that produce Japan's legendary Kobe beef, Jerry Wilson raises the American version of the meat that will become $50 steaks and $13 burgers.

One of the best days in summer is when local corn starts to appear in the farmers markets. Heavy, sweet, juicy corn picked not more than a few miles from home.

When it comes to green beans, the oven tends to get overlooked.

When it comes to creative ways to consume watermelon, we tend to shortchange ourselves.

Savor the results of a meal cooked from scratch, eliminating preservatives and that generic gooey flavor that passes itself off as cheese flavored salt.

Donatella Arpaia has fond memories of a dramatic salad.

An omelet for supper is a perfect end-of-week meal when the refrigerator is bare. All you need are a few eggs and some leftovers.