LEXINGTON, Ky. — The medicines were rich and strange, their active ingredients so particular they sounded fictional. One regimen involved jowl bits from Red Wattle hogs; the pigs were bred from sows ...

The last two years of on again off again COVID-driven shutdowns, lockdowns, and quarantines decimated my once-well-stocked pantry and has had me leafing through family recipe collections dating back ...

Call it chance, synchronicity, meaningful coincidence. Whatever we name the intersection of random events that resonate with one another, it is one of the things that keep life interesting, often ...

New Year's Day dinner is a meal to ignore at your own financial peril. If you only read one of my columns ever, read this one. It could mean the difference between you dining on Oodles of Noodles or ...

Smoked pork jowl from the Burgers' Smokehouse: I think this stuff has been one of the big sleeper/surprise hits of the first couple months of our post-book release bacon work this year. Pretty much ...

Dec. 29, 1948, in The Star: Are you planning your New Year’s celebratory menu? Here are selected prices from the latest Jitney-Jungle ad: Two pounds of black-eyed peas, 29 cents; hog jowl, 30 cents ...

One regimen involved jowl bits from Red Wattle hogs; the pigs were bred from sows named Fart Blossom and Hildegard, and had spent the end of their lives gorging on acorns, hickory nuts, apples, and ...