Food

Wine Spectator magazine recently announced its 40th annual restaurant awards, and Osteria Avanti in Leola made the cut. This year's list includes more than 2,900 restaurants nationwide and in 72 countries. 

McCormick & Co. is recalling certain batches of some of its popular seasoning blends, including Italian and Buffalo ranch seasonings, because of fears of salmonella contamination.

Last year at this time, I ate plenty of fresh corn, I’m sure of it. But this year, I am really tasting it. Sweet milky kernels, almost nectarlike, with a lingering perfume. Tender to the bite, even raw. Is it my imagination, or is this summer’s crop really on its game?

Last month, I plopped down in a window seat for the first time in 15 months and flew to Los Angeles. There to greet me was my buddy Bill, who also dabbles in food and words for a living. In a former life, Bill was a pastry chef, who had no (and still does not have) any interest in chocolate.…

Like most restaurants in Lancaster, Amorette went dark in March 2020 in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. But unlike most restaurants in Lancaster, Amorette stayed dark without an end in sight. To be specific, it’s been one year, four months and seven days since the restaurant’s last …

Whether it's for a small gathering or just yourself, ordering pizza is always a go-to.

You might know it as a string bean or green bean. (I can still see the french-fried onion casserole of my youth like it was yesterday.) But the green (and yellow and purple) pod now on display at local farm stands is more accurately called a snap bean. Essentially, we are eating the pod (whi…

Although the 2022 PA Farm Show is six months away, popular Farm Show food will be available at the GIANT Expo Hall at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg.

A local business got some love on the social media platform TikTok recently.

If you needed an excuse to get ice cream, you're in luck: Sunday, July 18, is National Ice Cream Day.

It’s hot, buggy and muggy. I have jet lag. I might get rained on.

This is the third installment of an ongoing series with a focus on small independent farms and creative use of farmland. We hope it serves as a reminder that the food grown and raised in Lancaster County is both diverse and extraordinary and that the people tending the land have stories wort…