Peanut butter. You can gobble it like Presidents Jefferson, Carter, and Clinton, or consume enough (along with fellow Americans) to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon every year. Peanuts (and peanut butter) don’t grow on trees like pecans and almonds. They’re not even a nut. Peanuts a

  Maybe buffalos don’t fly but their numbers are sky-high. Nearly 1.42 billion Buffalo wings are eaten on Super Bowl Sunday – a lot of wings for a critter that isn’t air-borne. So where do Buffalo wings come from?     It began with a mistake. The year was 19

Happy New Year! Now it’s time to get down to serious business: donuts. What’s your pleasure? Glazed. Frosted. Jelly or cream? Ninety-six percent of Americans love donuts. The market is worth over sixteen billion dollars . . . and growing. In the U.S. alone there are over t

  Wontons. Kreplach. Tortellini. Dumplings can be found in almost every country. According to CNN, a dumpling is “a pocket of dough filled with some form of savory or sweet stuffing.” That leaves a lot of room for cuisines, fillings, and spices. Legend says the first dumpling was

The taco has a very humble beginning. Some believe it was around well before the sixteenth century Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico. According to Unocasa, “indigenous cultures viewed corn as the foundation of humanity or the seed of life.” They perfected the process of nixtamal

                         Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake – Edward Morykwas, author, photographer   It’s time to party! Is it your birthday? A family birthday? Kids? How about friends, pets, and celebrities? That adds up to a lot of celebration

Soup. It’s food for the soul. My legacy soup is rich, buttery red potato. You probably never heard of it. My family came from a small town in Austria-Hungry, beneath the Carpathian Mountains and near the Ukraine border. The soup was made by frying onions in sweet butter, adding diced

So many choices. Peperoni or sausage? Red or white? Deep dish or thin crust? According to the popular saying: You can’t buy happiness. But you can buy pizza, and that’s kind of the same thing. There’s truth in numbers. Pizza is one of the most popular foods on the planet, leading to t

We play with food, laugh about food, and analyze every bite. Food is part of life – it’s been around as long as we have. As a result, there are a lot of funny stories about the precious and hopefully tasty morsels that we consume. Below are just a few true stories . . .  Spaghetti Tre

Spaghetti with meatballs? Pad Thai? Mac ‘n cheese? Pasta/ noodles are loved around the world. There are 600 different shapes and thirteen hundred different names for a food that fits into almost every cuisine. Go to Japan and they call it ramen. How about spätzle in Germany, patitsio