Campus shopping guide
As graduation season approaches, many Aggies are flocking to the Memorial Union (MU) and other campus shopping locales to stock up on college memorabilia. Aside from those few coffee mugs placed suggestively on kitchen countertops, T-shirts etched with mascots and the infamous college acronym sweatshirts, there is hardly a variety in establishing where a person [...]

Readers Feel...
Rain, Thunder... Enjoy the tastes of Thanksgiving any day of the year with our deli version of Turkey and Trimmings Sandwiches. You're sure to still be on the receiving end of loads of thanks, when you serve these tasty turkey sandwiches.

Taming the wild turkey
SALISBURY -- When Bertram 'Bert' Devonald hosts his 'Men's Night Out,' the entertainment is relaxed conversation and dining on Eastern Shore delicacies goes beyond the usual steamed crabs, oysters and fish.

Meet the Chef: Brandon Woo
Who or what was your first cooking influence? I used to watch a lot of cooking shows on Saturday morning. You know, like on PBS. I was a PBS junkie. I still am. Kids used to watch little cartoons and whatever. I used to watch cooking shows. That's how I learned. I still do that to this day.

Mayan Flavors, Customs Spice Up The Yucatan's Top Tables
The hottest tables of Merida, Mexico serve so-called Yucatecan cuisine, which is prided by locals as having a distinctive flavor from the rest of Mexican cuisine.

Striving, maybe too hard, for parenting parity
When Sophia turned 10, I wrote her a love letter in this space. Because her due date had been Thanksgiving 1999, I called the column “A decade's worth of gratitude for my 10-year-old turkey,” and presented 10 reasons I was thankful for her.

Mad Women: Unhappy Thanksgiving
The title of Sunday night's Mad Men was "Dark Shadows," but let's call it by its more colloquial name. It was about that darkest of dysfunctional family holidays, the one with the turkey: Thanksgiving. Our episode begins with the sad suburban sight of Fat Betty, who's slightly less fat now (she's going to Weight Watchers, we find out), weighing her sad suburban breakfast in her sad suburban ...

Dining: Seek and ye shall feed
Five out-of-the-way restaurants that keep me coming back for more... It happens almost every time I tell someone I'm a food writer. The response is, "Oh, how wonderful—you get to review all those restaurants!" Well, no. I am not a restaurant critic.

Bob Sampson: Turkey restoration still paying off
In the early 1970s, while buying a license to fish for trout on the famous Beaverkill River in New York, I purchased a box-style turkey call on an impulse. After parking the car along the river, like a kid I had to give my new toy a try. To my surprise, a turkey immediately answered from the nearby woods.

Colligan's Call: Dinner gives a renewed appreciation
Monday May 14, 2012 You never fully understand what a project involves until you actually do it start to finish by yourself. I was reminded of this Saturday as I cooked a full-on Thanksgiving dinner for myself and a few friends. My previous experience preparing a Thanksgiving dinner involved me sitting on the couch, watching football.