by Tara Kimura, CBCNews.ca

For many years, I had the good fortune to share honeycake and challah with friends at Rosh Hashanah thanks to a generous colleague who brought in the holiday treats every year. Honeycake is earthy and spicy, stripped of sugary icing, while challah is sunshine-gold, chewy and sweet.

by Jessica Wong, CBCNews.ca

My webby day job aside, one of the things I love about the internet is people sharing their successes, failures and just plumb wackiest kitchen creations with others online.

Amid the LOLcat forwards, the urban myth messages and the outrageous Youtube links that clutter my inbox, I usually cherish the zany foodie endeavours friends send to me the most.

by Kevin Yarr, CBCNews.ca

As a great lover of eating, the news that I would have to go 38 hours without solid food was quite distressing to me.

by Tara Kimura, CBCNews.ca

In a joint investigation, the CBC and the Toronto Star today published a report suggesting the Canadian Food Inspection Agency knew three years ago of serious problems in its inspection process.

by Andree Lau, CBCNews.ca

The news that tainted milk products have sickened 53,000 babies and killed at least four in China is heartbreaking, and it makes me wonder about China’s increasing milk consumption in a country that traditionally does not drink milk.

The World Trade Organization measures a country’s standard of living by how much milk its citizens consume; it’s supposed to be a signal of its wealth and stability. But that’s the problem.

by Jessica Wong, CBCNews.ca

Reading the ongoing coverage of the latest tainted food scandal out of China — horrifyingly it's contaminated baby formula and milk products once again — brings up a flurry of mixed feelings for me.

Besides worrying about my cousins, both young moms with toddlers living in southern China, I also feel embarrassed whenever these stories come to light over here in North America (despite the fact that we're often struggling with our own food scandals).

by Amber Hildebrandt, CBCNews.ca

I may have scoffed at my fellow 20-something friends who took up the knitting needle when the grandmotherly activity gained popularity a few years ago, but now I can scoff no more.

This summer, I jumped onto the bandwagon of another old-fashioned craft enjoying a mini revival: canning.

by Tara Kimura, CBCNews.ca
The New York Daily News recently featured a profile of Apollonia Castitlione, a Queens gardener who grew a whopper of a zucchini measuring six feet long.

by Kevin Yarr, CBCNews.ca

I was at the farmer's market the other day and my son asked me for money to buy a smoothie. Sure, I said, handing over a few dollars. He was back a few minutes later.

"What kind did you get?" I asked.

"Chocolate banana."

by Amber Hildebrandt, CBCNews.ca

In the midst of the election campaign flurry of trading barbs and making promises, a TV reporter shot an all-consuming question at Stephen Harper on Tuesday: What vegetable are you?

The Conservative leader paused and looked around at the vegetables behind him at the food terminal where he was making a fuel tax announcement.

by Andree Lau, CBCNews.ca

When I was growing up, Kraft Dinner was an exotic food. It was obviously not part of my Chinese family's traditional diet, but thanks to TV commercials and such, KD seemed fun and sure to be tasty.

I remember often begging my best friend in Grade 7 to trade her thermos of KD for my ham sandwich.

But once I had tasted KD, I realized it wasn't really the macaroni and cheese I wanted; it was the idea of having something novel and Westernized that I coveted.