Will Travel For Food with Jane Ammeson

The Story Inn was the perfect setting for the judging contest where Chef Paula Haney of Hoosier Momma Pie Co. in Chicago prepared the top five recipes in each category for Indianapolis and Chicago chefs to taste.

Balancing the tangy flavors of yogurt, pomegranate and lemon, zesty spices and herbs such as cinnamon, mint and garlic, the sweetness of molasses and rose water along with grains and nuts is one of the defining factors of what makes Mediterranean cuisine so appealing says Maureen Abood, auth…

The other day, my daughter Nia told me that Maya Angelou had died. Nia knew about Angelou from an early age as I had returned from a trip to her home near the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a copy of her children’s book she had inscribed to my daughter.

The other day, my daughter Nia told me that Maya Angelou had died. Nia knew about Angelou from an early age as I had returned from a trip to her home near the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a copy of her children’s book she had inscribed to my daughter.

The other day, my daughter Nia told me that Maya Angelou had died. Nia knew about Angelou from an early age as I had returned from a trip to her home near the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a copy of her children’s book she had inscribed to my daughter.

The other day, my daughter Nia told me that Maya Angelou had died. Nia knew about Angelou from an early age as I had returned from a trip to her home near the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a copy of her children’s book she had inscribed to my daughter.

The other day, my daughter Nia told me that Maya Angelou had died. Nia knew about Angelou from an early age as I had returned from a trip to her home near the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a copy of her children’s book she had inscribed to my daughter.

The other day, my daughter Nia told me that Maya Angelou had died. Nia knew about Angelou from an early age as I had returned from a trip to her home near the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a copy of her children’s book she had inscribed to my daughter.

The other day, my daughter Nia told me that Maya Angelou had died. Nia knew about Angelou from an early age as I had returned from a trip to her home near the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a copy of her children’s book she had inscribed to my daughter.

The other day, my daughter Nia told me that Maya Angelou had died. Nia knew about Angelou from an early age as I had returned from a trip to her home near the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a copy of her children’s book she had inscribed to my daughter.

The other day, my daughter Nia told me that Maya Angelou had died. Nia knew about Angelou from an early age as I had returned from a trip to her home near the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a copy of her children’s book she had inscribed to my daughter.

Food correspondent-at-large Jane Ammeson will travel far and near to write about her latest foodie finds. From tastings to chef profiles, Jane will whet your appetite.

The other day, my daughter Nia told me that Maya Angelou had died. Nia knew about Angelou from an early age as I had returned from a trip to her home near the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a copy of her children’s book she had inscribed to my daughter.

I was very excited to see the line-up of celebrity chefs that KitchenAid is bringing to Southwest Michigan for this year’s 75th Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores.

I was very excited to see the line-up of celebrity chefs that KitchenAid is bringing to Southwest Michigan for this year’s 75th Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores.

I was very excited to see the line-up of celebrity chefs that KitchenAid is bringing to Southwest Michigan for this year’s 75th Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores.

I was very excited to see the line-up of celebrity chefs that KitchenAid is bringing to Southwest Michigan for this year’s 75th Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores.

I was very excited to see the line-up of celebrity chefs that KitchenAid is bringing to Southwest Michigan for this year’s 75th Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores.

I was very excited to see the line-up of celebrity chefs that KitchenAid is bringing to Southwest Michigan for this year’s 75th Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores.

When it’s so cold, snowy and windy as it has been for what seems like forever, I often think of a trip I took to Door County, Wisc., a narrow peninsula tucked between Lake Michigan and Green Bay.

On the back roads in West Kentucky, artisan ham makers like Charles Gatton Jr. continue traditions born of necessity before the days of refrigeration.

Pop-up events seem to be, well, popping up all over Southwest Michigan. Paula Bartholome, co-publisher of Edible Michiana magazine and writer of the blog gardenttotable.com, is partnering with Journeyman Distillery to host a pop-up

We had just met Ana Elena Mendez the day we arrived in Merida, the capitol city of the Yucatan. But such is the hospitality of Mexico that the next morning my friend Lisbeth and I are sitting in the dining room of Casa Lecanda, her elegant and exquisitely restored 19th century mansion, sippi…

“This is how we started,” Joe Dickman tells me as I study an old black and white photo showing his father and a teen-aged Joe stirring a large copper cauldron over an open fire.

I first met Emeril Lagasse at Heaven on Seven, Jimmy Banos’s New Orleans style restaurant in the Garland Building on Wabash Avenue in Chicago’s Loop. The Garland Building had a special affinity for me because I used to accompany my mom there to a salon which had been on the 7th floor to get …

“These might seem totally unrelated,” Bridgett Blough tells me as we stand in the kitchen of her parents’ Southwest Michigan home where she has a jar of her homemade kimchi, a spicy and sometimes pungent condiment served with almost every Korean meal and bruschetta topped with layers of crea…

The only thing I know about harvesting honey is from reading Winnie the Pooh and that always seemed to end with Pooh’s head stuck in a honey jar.

Outside of Chichen Itza, a once thriving metropolis (back about a millennium ago) of 50,000 people and now one of the most significant archaeological sites in Mexico, I’ve just shoveled dirt over my dinner and am waiting for the Shaman to come give it a final blessing, when I realize I’ve go…

My grandmother shopped at the poultry market on Main Street in Indiana Harbor, selecting the live chickens she thought would be a tasty meal that night. The butcher took them in the back and did whatever had to be done before returning with the packaged meat.

The search for where to open their new restaurant took Pat and Tim Foley almost five years and they even went as afield as South Bend. But the perfect spot was a lot closer as Pat discovered driving along the St. Joseph River in downtown Benton Harbor.

Check, Please!, a long time favorite Chicago restaurant show, is hitting the road again, gathering top notch chefs, artisan vintners, microbrewers and distillers for the 2nd Annual Check Please! Farm to Table Festival, taking place on Sunday, September 1 at the Round Barn Winery, Distillery …

“I’m doing some research and development on flour,” Willard Gustavsen tells me the moment I step past the historic brick façade of the late 19th century building into the linear space of his restaurant named, simply enough, Gustavsen.

For all of us who’ve ever encountered an odd looking vegetable at our local grocery store or farmer’s market and either passed it by or brought it home and then let it sit because we didn’t know what to do with it, Diane Morgan, an award winning cookbook author and culinary instructor, has t…

Grilled out? No matter how much we love easy to make summertime meals, half way through the season it’s sometimes nice to change gears and cook a meal other than a charred piece of meat slathered with barbecue sauce straight from the grill. That’s why I was so delighted to find these new coo…

What’s a girl to do when confronted with platters and trays filled with the most luscious Jacques Torres Chocolates all for free?

Thank goodness then for Monica Kass Rogers and her website "Lost Recipes Found".

Despite his international culinary heritage – summers in Marrakesh, winters in Montreal where his parents, of French Moroccan descent, had moved and training at the Institut de tourisme et d'hôtellerie du Québec followed by stints working at both Club Med and the Ritz Carleton in the Caribbe…

If Mario liked it, who was I to argue?

Dinner was at Orchids at Palm Court, the exquisite French Art Deco restaurant in the historic Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza — a swank room filled with gilt, six foot palms rising from oversized urns, elaborate murals, ornate lighting fixtures, super high ceilings and even a waterfall. I…