Garden Q&A: What organic means; what are the moth-looking insects in…

I was in the grocery store and started wondering, what am I really getting when I buy organic fruits and vegetables? What makes one onion organic, and another not? The United States Department of Agriculture answers your question this way: "Organic agriculture produces products using methods that preserve the environment and avoid most synthetic materials, such as pesticides and antibiotics," and "a are grown and processed according to federal guidelines addressing, among many factors, soil quality, animal raising practices, pest and weed control, and use of additives." The key words in that rather long definition are "according to federal guidelines."

Taste test 2016: Clintona s cookies vs. Trumpa s cookies

At least that's what the hope has been since 1992, when Family Circle magazine began collecting cookie recipes from the wives of presidential candidates for their Presidential Cookie Poll. Clinton submitted the same recipe that his wife, current Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, submitted during the 1992 and 1996 campaigns.

Donald Trump Mocked for Eating KFC with a Fork and Knife on His Private Plane

Donald Trump 's eating habits were the talk of Twitter after the GOP nominee shared of a photo of himself digging into some chicken from KFC with silverware on his private jet. After a day on the campaign trail, Trump picked up what looks like an eight-piece bucket meal with a side of mashed potatoes and gravy to feast on during travel.

How fake is your food? Exploring the dark side of the food chain

As a columnist for Forbes and USA Today , food writer Larry Olmsted has written about all of that and more, from b ogus Kobe beef sold in fancy restaurants to supermarket spices adulterated with common weeds. In his new book Real Food/Fake Food , Olmsted delves deep into the dark aspects of the food chain in America, revealing the dirty secrets about how our food is marketed and labeled - and what's right and especially wrong with what we eat.

More Scenes from a Wedding

We were dining on barbecue beef brisket Sunday beneath the shade trees at Ole Gilliam Mill near Sanford, N.C., when Cassie asked, "When are you going to dance?" Cassie is a friend of my son Bob, and also of his twin brother Jim and Jim's wife Danielle. Cassie remembered how I danced at Jim's wedding - the old man busting out his old disco moves circa 1979 - and was eager for another show.

New Haven program aims to curb gap in food security

In order to make sure one less child goes hungry over the summer, officials and volunteers gathered Saturday to kick off the city's Free Summer Meals program. From June 27 to Aug. 26, low-income children 18 and under will be eligible to receive meals at 91 different sites throughout the city.

Mapping the America That Candidates Care About

The pre-emptive "sorry" was an appropriate way both to soften the announcement and to sharpen it: Breakfast-when to eat it, what to eat for it , whether to eat it at all-has long been a subject of intense debate, accompanied by intense confusion and intense feeling. "Breakfast nowadays is cool," the writer Jen Doll noted in Extra Crispy , the new newsletter from Time magazine that is devoted to, yep, breakfast.

Veterans return from first all-women Honor Flight

McDonald's is moving back to Chicago and taking over the old home of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." The world's biggest hamburger... WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton vowed Monday to make stopping "lone wolf" terrorists a top priority if elected president, saying that while the shooter... NEW YORK - CBS' Tony Awards on Sunday beat last year's audience by one-third.

4 Steps to Buying Better Salmon

How do I know what kind of salmon to buy? Should I buy farmed salmon or wild-caught salmon? What does it mean when salmon is labeled organic? How can I tell if it is fresh? I'm confused about whether consuming farmed salmon is okay or not. These are questions I get over and over again, and I understand why: The answers aren't totally clear to consumers.

David Sarasohn: Fighting over lunch money

"I spent a lot of my time at my last school in Utah tracking down families who owed lunch money," he recalls, not exactly nostalgically. Welch has been able to think about education more lately because of a change in the school lunch rules in 2010, that allow schools with at least 40 percent of their students on food stamps or Medicaid to serve everybody free lunch.