For most of us, Valentine’s Day is all about decadent desserts. And while we’d never deny ourselves a pink velvet cupcake, a ...

There of course was the famous (at least in my mind) incident of my mom baking chocolate chip cookies for my brother’s skating party, of which I ate the all in the weeks leading up to the party. She ...

Lloyd W. “Fig” Newton, a great-grandson of slaves, grew up on a South Carolina farm in the twilight of the Jim Crow era, when African Americans had to use separate bathrooms, enter doctors' or ...

That was the question put to the 18 national teams competing at the 2025 national heritage-themed Pastry World Cup in Lyon this weekend, and they had nine hours to come up with an answer.

Cam Newton isn’t backing down from his comments during Super Bowl week, when he called his old Carolina Panthers teammates “losers” before he got to the team in 2011 and was called out by ...

No, not the soccer World Cup. The Pastry World Cup. The biennial event features contestants from as far afield as Egypt, Mauritius and South Korea in a sweet showdown where teams compete to create ...

Gen. Newton, thank you for speaking to what so many of us feel. There is despair, yes. But in the life you’ve lived, and the difficulties you’ve overcome, are also inspiring lessons of resilience.

The Fig fire ignited on Thursday evening on the 41000 block of Fig Street in Riverside County, spreading to nearby vegetation. Evacuation orders were initially issued for the area surrounding I-15 ...

This is a quick and easy recipe for shortcrust pastry. If you're new to making pastry, you won't believe how simple it can be. You can make it by hand or in a food processor. The secret is to ...

Tonight will be mainly dry with clear spells and patchy cloud. There will just be the odd isolated shower locally. Winds will continue to ease overnight. Saturday Tomorrow will have plenty of ...