Feb. 12 is the last day for customers to preorder heart-shaped pretzels for Valentine’s Day from Smales Pretzel Bakery on Xenia Avenue in Dayton.

These soft and chewy homemade Bavarian pretzels come with a savory beer cheese for optimal dipping and dunking.

Perhaps the most pivotal part of pretzel preparation is the bath. For many bakeries and ambitious home bakers, the secret lies in the lye. Lye –- formally called sodium hydroxide -– is an ...

Pretzels have come a long way from their bland, break-your-teeth-on-them days. There's lots of options now, and they're coated in seasoning that gives them way more flavor than you remember. I ...

United Natural Trading voluntarily recalled 99 cases worth of 7-ounce bags containing its Fresh Direct Dark Chocolate Pretzels on January 27 in collaboration with the FDA, with the federal agency ...

The theater critic Jack Helbig was famous for withering capsule theater reviews in such publications as Newcity and the Chicago Reader, demolishing productions he found wanting in a pithy sentence.

When we think of Steely Dan, we tend to think of ornate, jazz-tinged arrangements and twisting narratives that can be difficult to decipher. Now and again, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker threw us a ...

Troopers said the tanker spilled Sodium Hydroxide, requiring a hazmat crew for cleanup. Troopers responded to the tanker just after 8 AM on Jan. 27. The accident happened on East 540 Road in ...

One of the initial heroes of what was possibly the most successful and biggest public health campaigns in the country was salt. Introduced, fortified with iodine, in the 1950s, it marshalled a ...