This Saturday is the 10th Annual Palmetto Peanut Boil competition on Devine Street. Teams from around the Midlands will be offering up their very best recipes for what has been nicknamed “Southern ...

It’s a good time to be a vegan in Austin. The book, “Vegan Survival Guide to Austin” (History Press, $16.99) from Carolyn Tracy and Julie Wernersbach, is full of little vignettes about the activists, ...

TALLAHASSEE — Most people in the North eat crunchy, roasted peanuts as a snack at a sports event or bar. But boiled peanuts — popular south of the Mason-Dixon line, are entirely different. In some ...

Until a few weeks ago, I’d never had a boiled peanut. The prevalence of this Southern salty snack didn’t quite make its way to my corner of the Ozarks, but Ted Prater, the chef behind Banger’s Sausage ...

If there’s anything that makes me feel homesick, it’s the scent of boiled peanuts. Although I grew up primarily outside the South, my family moved to Central Florida when I was in high school, and it ...

“My husband and I enjoy feeding the squirrels peanuts in the shell. We recently bought salted ones and my niece told me it wasn’t safe to give them salted ones. Is that true?” The Newton Falls Public ...

The regional distinctions in American foods have worn away. You can get lobster in Omaha, pastrami in Arizona, corn on the cob in Rhode Island and Tupelo honey in Michigan. Which is a shame. Foods ...