Green Light

It’s OK to embrace Brussels sprouts’ yummy factor

A vegetable lover, I had always thought that Brussels sprouts are miniature cabbages, so I avoided them. No amount of Polish heritage would convince me to like cabbage, so it followed that I wou

Making Do with Dough

A father-son team brings Manlius’ Pizza Rig inside to Ironwood Pizza

John and Jeff Freightenburgh are back to making gourmet pizza, this time in a new joint which differs in one important way from their last kitchen: This one...

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This Candy’s Dandy There’s still plenty of time to check out the Erie Canal Museum’s 27th annual Gingerbread Gallery, on display through...

Posh Spice

Pumpkin-flavored beverages, baked goods and more impart an elegant, aromatic vibe into winter cooking

While pumpkins are most often associated with holiday pies, don’t underestimate this favorite of the squash and gourd family. Not only is the mighty pumpkin delicious, but it is also quite

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Dining Card Party Syracuse-area business owners and residents spent the evening of Oct. 17 celebrating the arrival of City Dining Cards, both the...

The Cupcake Boss

With Evil Treats Bakery, Courtney Flynn stirs up some Halloween-themed goodies

Courtney Flynn hated baking—that was until she started a cupcake company. In September, Flynn’s company, Evil Treats Bakery, won Best Bakery in the annual Best of Syracuse readers’

Good for What Oils Ya

Olive on Brooklea brings a taste of the wide world of olive oil to Fayetteville

Shopping for olive oil can be daunting, much like choosing a wine. The bottles are often artistic, the labels persuasive, the choices confusing. The only way to know for certain that you like the

Children of The Corn

Circus peanuts and Mary Janes aside, candy corn is the most useless Halloween treat in the bucket

In the 1880s, George Renninger, a worker for the Wunderlee Candy Company, invented a new kind of candy. The tiny cone-shaped “treat” was aesthetically a...

Who Cut the Cheese?

Members of the Finger Lakes Cheese Trail invite noshers to this weekend’s open house

Taking cues from other New York agricultural success stories such as wine and apples, dairy farmers and creameries based in the Finger Lakes are working together to ensure that their products, che

Dead Meet

Converted carnivore John Schlimm pens two vegan-friendly cookbooks

Vegan cooking is often stereotyped as bland and uninteresting, composed mostly of crushed-up chickpeas and flavorless tofu. But according to author John Schlimm, it doesn’t have to be that wa