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.

The richest source of French regional recipes is in this land of mystery and antiquity, swept by a gentle breeze of garlic.

S is for sad … and for the mysterious appetite that often surges in us when our hearts seem breaking and our lives too bleakly empty.

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....

Notes on the rich aesthetic reward which awaits all inquiring students of architecture, wine and gastronomy in the shrine of the oyster’s best friend, Chablis.

Featuring the Brussels, Café Tokay, and the Rajah.

A is for dining alone … and so am I, if a choice must be made between most people I know and myself.

Sherman Billingsley, let it be said at the outset, is an astute and determined businessman as well as being very much of a perfectionist.

As readers of this department may be aware, its author has been a faithful Manhattanite whose only apostatic doubts have been excited by the splendors of San Francisco.

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.