Get ready for our next Down Country Road's cookbook. Yes we're going to have a contest to award the best chefs (you get to vote too). We'll give you all the details a little later. Great things are coming to our lifestyle recipe section. Right now we need you to start showing us your best.
Starting Jan. 26, you've got a whole new reason--and a whole new season--to celebrate. It's the start of the 15-day Chinese New Year festival and the first day of lunar year 4707, the Year of the Ox.
Chinese New Year is all about spectacle, from the fireworks and dancing dragons to the fabulous food. That's why it's a holiday anyone can enjoy and a perfect time to host a party with a surefire theme and plenty of crowd-pleasing surprises.
Star and Stripes adorn Old Glory.
She stands high above and waves
over patriots still living
and heroes in their graves.
A fun page for kids with Smart Stuff from Twig Walkingstick and an assortment of puzzles, jokes and fun facts.
An Oklahoma secretLined with lovely old buildings on bricked streets and exuding small town friendliness, Pauls Valley, Okla., is a charming place with some of the state's most interesting shops.
Catwalk-worthy coveralls
Right about the time of the first snowfall, every winter, my mom would decide that Dad's coveralls were too worn to last one more season.
Enjoy holiday foods without adding extra pounds Enjoy holiday foods without adding extra pounds Here a nibble, there a nibble, everywhere a nibble. . . With November, December and January--from the day after Halloween until the end of play at the Super Bowl--often referred to as "the eating season," adding a few extra pounds is easy to do. "Given holiday schedules, normal activities, such as eating, sleeping and exercise often are set aside in favor of holiday activities and events," said Tanda Kidd, K-State Research and Extension ...
'Keeping the Family Farming' workshops set for January in Beloit, Hiawatha 'Keeping the Family Farming' workshops set for January in Beloit, Hiawatha Kansas Kansas State University and the Kansas Farm Analyst Program will offer Keeping the Family Farming Workshops for families who are working through the benefits and challenges of incorporating family members and others into a farm operation or passing the family farm business from one generation to the next. "Farm transition planning is difficult in the best circumstances," said LaVell Winsor, agricultural ...
Keeping the shelves stocked Keeping the shelves stocked It's a sad state of affairs. Rural America is largely responsible for a safe, wholesome and plentiful food supply for our country and many others. Yet, the people who feed, fuel and clothe the rest of us often live in what sociologists call "food deserts."
Conventional ag production has economical, environmental advantages Conventional ag production has economical, environmental advantages With little or no new farmland to exploit, farmers will have to become more productive in the future in order to continue to provide feed, food and fiber for the world, according to Alex Avery, director of research and education for the Hudson Institute. "Global food demand will at least double, and more likely triple, over the next 50 years," he told a group at the Feeding Quality Forum held in South Sioux City, Neb., Nov. ...
Make logical food choices Make logical food choices Buying locally grown food is the latest consumer trend to spread across the country. Many consumers buy local to support their area farmers. But others have bought into one of the biggest food myths of today.
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