Is there any better dessert after a dinner than a red-meated grapefruit broiled with sweet sherry? Or dress the halves with a cherry or a dot of cranberry, or drizzle on honey.

Cherries Jubilee is a beautiful name for a beautiful dessert. The better restaurants serve this wrapped in blue flame and steeply priced. $1.50 a portion or thereabout.

News from the Grace Rush kitchen out Cincinnati way: The dark Martha Ann fruitcake, which built the business, has a new honey-gold sister, white fruitcake by name.

Rain or shine, spring's in the bones. Undeniable evidence at Ye Olde Herb Shoppe, 46 Dey Street, New York. Here are spring tonics for sale, the old-fashioned kinds made of bark, seed, and berry to turn into teas to quicken the blood....

Hit the jack pot of all things good—the Jack Pot Beans, a product of Hitching Post Foods, Inc., Savannah, Georgia. These beans are the big, mealy limas, cooked Southern style with brown sugar.

There was a legend that the great Fred Harvey once discharged an eating-house manager for not showing a sufficient monthly operating deficit in his accounts.

Now is the month when mothers send off-to-school packages, a labor of love, but a labor no less. Why not have the job done to order?

Frogs' legs leap to the menu as the oyster bids farewell and is off for its holiday.

Luxury today has the flavor of vice. In the ancient world of 1940, luxury was nearly a virtue.