DIY helps make cured salmon an everyday pleasure
The trouble with cured salmon? We tend to treat it like, well … a treat.Cured salmon — with all its rich, salty, savory, lusciously fatty goodness — too often is relegated to the breakfast or brunch...
View ArticleQuick & Easy: Hearty pizza has focaccia base, shrimp topping
SICILIAN PIZZA2 cups thinly sliced onion1 tsp. minced garlic½ cup water1 focaccia bread (weighing about 8 oz.)1 cup chopped, canned tomatoes4 anchovy fillets, rinsed and cut in half6 oz. medium shrimp,...
View ArticleKitchen Scoop: Kick off fall with hot apple cinnamon slump
From Harden Rives, Kitchen Scoop assistant:Apple season is here, and if you’re like me that means memories of apple cider, apple pie, fresh applesauce and cobbler. There is something about the mixture...
View ArticleBeer notes: New Akron brewery set to open in Merriman Valley
Ron Shea is going old school — real old school — when it comes to naming his new Akron brewery.It’ll be the R. Shea Brewing Co.Who does he think he is? A stand-up comic with his own half-hour...
View ArticleFood notes: Sausage Fest in Peninsula; Twisted Olive sets opening; lots of...
It’ll be a sausage spree, a wiener wonderland — OK, maybe that’s a bit over the top.On Oct. 4, foodie and event organizer J Phillip Hudson again will bring his Ohio Sausage Fest to Brandywine Country...
View Article‘Ask This Old House’ films in Brecksville
BRECKSVILLE: When Steve Fening wanted to install landscaping lighting at his house, he didn’t call an electrician. He contacted Ask This Old House.Fening emailed the PBS show in August after reading it...
View ArticleSheila E. wants to write more, expand book to film
NEW YORK: Days before the release of Sheila E.’s autobiography, news spread that she was once engaged to Prince. The bigger bombshell, however, didn’t get nearly as much attention.“Pretty much, I was...
View ArticleNew FDA label bolsters safety case for Chantix
WASHINGTON: New government-approved labeling on Pfizer’s drug Chantix suggests that the anti-smoking medication may not carry the risks of suicidal behavior that first earned it the government’s...
View ArticleStudy says number of adults trying e-cigarettes down
NEW YORK: A new government study suggests the number of U.S. adults who have tried electronic cigarettes might be leveling off.The proportion of adults who have ever used e-cigarettes rose from about 3...
View ArticleParis shows evoke Audrey Hepburn, Pre-Raphaelites
PARIS: What does Audrey Hepburn have in common with the Pre-Raphaelites?The answer: they are all part of the myriad of inspirations found on the first full day of Paris’ ready-to-wear shows and...
View ArticleCognitive complaints in the elderly are often dementia harbingers
By Melissa HealyLos Angeles TimesSometimes a missing set of keys is just that — an inconvenience borne of lapsed attention. But a new study suggests that when seniors report they are plagued by missing...
View ArticleThe Scene: Taste of the NFL for Akron/Canton Regional Foodbank
Food and football combined for a delightful evening for 600 guests Tuesday at the seventh annual Taste of the NFL, held at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. Greg Long and Gary Smith co-chaired...
View ArticleKim Hone-McMahan: Handmade quilts donated to Akron kindergartners
The kindergartners fidgeted in their seats. It wasn’t Christmas morning, but they knew something exciting was about to happen. Something that would make them very happy.A group of men and women entered...
View ArticlePennsylvania priest held on sex tourism charges
PITTSBURGH: A priest accused of traveling to Honduras to engage in sex with children while promoting missionary work with the poor there has been arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
View ArticleAbandoned truck dripping rancid chicken juice
MISSOULA, Mont.: A truck dripping rancid juices from thousands of pounds of rotting chicken sat in the heat attracting flies Thursday at a western Montana truck stop, where an Idaho trucking company...
View ArticleKardashian scare, Hepburn offspring hits Paris
PARIS: It’s Kim Kardashian causing mayhem at Paris Fashion Week again.This time, the reality star was the innocent victim of a kerfuffle outside the Balmain show Thursday, in which she was nearly...
View ArticleThird U.S. Ebola patient released from hospital
OMAHA, Neb.: The third American aid worker who contracted Ebola in Africa has been released from a Nebraska hospital.Dr. Rick Sacra said he has been released from the Nebraska Medical Center at a news...
View ArticleSenators: Widen Medicaid program for frail seniors
WASHINGTON: More than a dozen U.S. senators from both parties are calling on the Obama administration to broaden a Medicaid program for the nation’s frailest seniors, calling it a proven alternative to...
View ArticleAkron-area home and garden happenings — week of Sept. 27
Put your shopping shoes on. The popular Ohio Mart is coming.The juried arts and crafts show opens Thursday and continues through Oct. 5 at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, 714 N. Portage Path, Akron. The...
View ArticleAsk Mary Beth: Does dog pee make tomatoes unsafe?
Q: My dog urinated on my tomato plants maybe 10 or 12 times over the course of the growing season before we broke him of the habit. I rinsed the plants whenever I saw him do it, but are the tomatoes...
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