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Profiles of Cookies n Cream Apparel and Designer Toys founders Johnathan Sinclair, Peterson Lochard and Ganiu Lade Jobi are presented. The company sells designer T-shirts and collectible toys. The entrepreneurs' educational backgrounds are also included.

Studies have found that the risk of closing a restaurant business is the same in good times and bad. There are certain upsides to a down economy, including the huge pool of talented chefs and workers desperate for jobs and the drop in rents. The need for restaurateurs to consider location is also discussed.

[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] REGINA SCHRAMBLING: This is one of the tiniest kitchens I've ever seen, but also one of the most efficient. You can stand at the sink or cooktop and […]

01 Indoor Herb Garden Be a high-tech locavore. Grow your herbs, vegetables, and fruits on a kitchen windowsill with no soil. Power Plant Feeds everything automatically. $40; prepara.com. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] […]

Travelers can take cooking lessons even while on vacation, with cooking schools in many destinations around the world. In Europe, there is Le Petit Blanc Ecole de Cuisine in Oxford, England and Burgundy, France's La Varenne. Central America, Australia and Asia as well as the US also have their own.

Women who unnecessarily cut many foods from their diets erroneously claiming that they have food allergies or intolerances is becoming a common phenomenon. A woman discusses how she used to do this, and how other women are sacrificing the joys of eating by doing this.

Byline: Regina Schrambling Game of Thrones is jumping on the cookbook bandwagon. There is no tuning out Game of Thrones and Mad Men and even True Blood, what with the [...]

A novelist and short-story writer recalls growing up in a family defined by food. STUFFED Adventures of a Restaurant Family. By Patricia Volk. Illustrated. 242 pp. New York: Alfred A. [...]

Q: You were arrested two years ago, when you were chef at Le Chantilly, for some rather extreme financial improprieties. Some of the stuff your restaurant was trying to get [...]

An international couple reconfigures a prewar kitchen space and makes room for visiting family The buyers of this sprawling Manhattan coop in a 1929 building acquired a cramped, dark, and […]

When a contractor owner places his bets on paint and a pergola, a former stable gets a new lease on life The day a house-hunting contractor who dabbles in harness […]

IN THE THANKSGIVING TABLE OF MY CHILDHOOD, only one thing ever changed from year to year, and that was the green vegetable. Some Novembers it was canned peas; others, it [...]

LEAD: I grew up thinking cheese was something a little smaller than a breadbox, about the color of finger-painted pumpkins and as perishable as powdered milk. The only time I [...]

LEAD: Having been raised by a sugar fiend, i've always had a pretty jaded attitude toward sweets. My mom baked a cake virtually every day of my childhood, and all [...]

LEAD: IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY AFTERNOON in the dead of winter. I had just picked my way around a sad slab of salmon with limp but woody asparagus [...]

LEAD: Tea and toast are usually all I can take for breakfast in the comfort of home, when what I really want is an excuse to put off going to [...]