Patrise Shuttlesworth

Pumpkins, squashes and gourds; you are seeing them at the doorway of every grocery store in town. Little tiny ones, giant ones, bumpy ones, long ones and fat ones: Are they all edible, do you just decorate with them, or do you carve them for Halloween? With names like Carnival,...

Chef Surprise Night at Recipe House is never dull. Chef German Mosquera from Roots Bistro was the first guest chef of the Fall season for the Recipe for Success chef dinner series, and he brought his A game. He created a six-course tasting menu and a couple extra treats because,...

Fat: That dirty little word that America has spent the last 30 years and millions of dollars trying to avoid. Where did that get us? Even fatter as a nation. Avoiding fat has not significantly impacted our collective weight gain, but it has obliterated our palates. There is no denying...

I can count on half of one hand the number of cookbooks that have made me want to prepare each and every dish. And make no mistake; I have a cookbook collection that would rival any library or bookstore. Famous chefs, non-famous chefs, home cooks, every coast, every country, nearly...

There are fads, there are trends and then there are those ideas that are so clearly right and time-honored that we must take notice. Alice Waters started it on the West Coast, and Monica Pope started it on the Gulf Coast -- locavorism, sustainability and seasonality. These are ideas that...