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I've adapted a stuffed lamb recipe from Rosa Mexicano, a Mexican food chain with locations in Florida, for home use. The chain is celebrating Passover by melding Jewish tradition with current culinary trends in Mexico.

Roast beef, salsa, shredded lettuce and cheese give this salad the earthy flavors of the Southwest. Enjoy it for lunch or a light quick dinner.

Linda Settles from Havre de Grace, Md., was looking for a recipe for brown sugar pie that duplicated the one her grandmother used to make. She said her grandmother had five daughters but none of them remember how she made the pie.

It may be an awful cliche, but one of my favorite wine sayings is this: "Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it."

It has been a few years since Post cereals were briefly part of the Kraft empire, but Mr. Tidbit wonders whether Kraft left behind a marketing executive whose Oreo gene was only recently activated. In a performance highly reminiscent of the endlessly unfolding spectrum of Oreo cookies, Post's Honey Bunches of Oats cereal has started sprouting more and more versions, some of them as peculiar as the Oreo Triple Double.

Maybe they slowly grew on me. Or maybe it was the sheer sugar rush - from testing close to 75 dozen chicks - but I'll admit it. I've grown fond of Peeps.

Chefs may hold their breath over the nominees for the James Beard Foundation awards. And the same is true for cookbook authors, who found out Monday which volumes made the list of JBF finalists. The winners will be announced May 3 in New York City.

For many children, Easter is all about the hunt. They love searching for hidden eggs and snooping for the ultimate Easter jackpot: a basket filled with jelly beans, marshmallow Peeps and chocolate rabbits so large that they make a child's eyes go wide.

David Hirsch of Hirsch Vineyards has produced some renowned Pinot Noirs from his sprawling Sonoma Coast estate. They're very good. And very expensive. But the estate also makes a second label called "The Bohan-Dillon," which is much more affordable. About one-third of the fruit comes from Hirsch Vineyards, mostly younger vines, and the remainder from neighboring estates. The Bohan-Dillon is made exactly the same way as Hirsch Vineyards' higher-priced Pinots.

Tangy sweet and sour shrimp over rice is an easy dish. It's based on prepared ingredients that can be assembled in minutes at home. Best of all there's no chopping and peeling which means no fuss or mess.

Eleven-year-old Tyler Parker-Rollins says being vegan isn't always easy. But he says it's also "fun" and that he plans to be one "forever."

Piero Selvaggio has just delivered a plate of Sardinian fregula with grilled octopus - chewy pasta dyed a deep black in squid ink and strewn with lavender tentacles - to a table at Valentino restaurant.

The cook's year can be divided in two: tomato and not-tomato. But sometimes, even the best-intentioned, most locavore-crazy among us so crave a sweet, tart bite in our salads that we break down and grab one of those cottony out-of-season tennis balls. You've done it too. Don't try to deny it.

HARRODSBURG, Ky. - Guests who eat breakfast at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill probably don't even give a second thought to the syrup that covers their stacks of pancakes. But if they ask, they'll get a history lesson.

They began as fishing buddies, then skiing buddies, then running buddies, then baking buddies.