There are many ways to prepare venison. There are roasts, steak, burger, deer sausage, jerky, soups, chili, spaghetti sauce, meat loaves, gravy with biscuits and more. Venison, if cooked properly, is better than the best cuts of beef. There are no preservatives. It is just pure, lean meat.

Americans consume about 1,200 tons of vanilla beans a year. But not all vanilla is the same, and it pays to know the different kinds before you begin your seasonal baking. Here’s a look at the two main vanilla beans available.

At holiday time, Harpoon Brewery helps customers give back to their communities.

Two of the largest health associations in the country -- American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association – partnered to produce a cookbook filled with recipes that are good for diabetics and good-tasting enough to share with loved ones who don’t suffer from the disease.

Many of us enjoy a steaming cup of robust coffee to warm the spirit and clear the mind on a brisk cold winter day. However, the selection available can be mind-boggling. Does it really make a difference if the coffee is certified organic, shade-grown or fair-trade coffee?

You already have a turkey dressing recipe, but this one is worth a try. As mom’s cooking was, it’s very simple, no oysters, no herbal remedies. It’s just good, fight-over good in fact.

Ham hock

Some recipes call for clarified butter. This is unsalted butter that is slowly melted, allowing the milk solids to collect on the bottom. The clear (clarified) top is poured off and used in recipes. Its smoking point is much higher than butter. Clarified butter does not have as rich a taste as butter.

Don’t think the Big Feed is over once you put your fork down after the last bite of pumpkin pie. It can last a few more days by creatively using the leftover turkey and trimmings.

This week, create a simple-to-make goulash. Recipe, how-to video and ingredients inside.

Devon (DEHV-uhn) cream, also called clotted cream, is an English concoction often called for in desserts.

Isn’t it amazing how a certain aroma can trigger favorite experiences and memories? For many people, the scent of cinnamon especially has that effect.

Talk about a lot of pots on the burners. Cooking celebrity Rachael Ray is smack in the middle of the third season of her Emmy-winning daytime show, she just released a brand new cookbook, and she recently threw a mega wedding for 40 couples whose wedding plans were swept away by Hurricane Ike. But when it comes to Thanksgiving, Ray makes time for family.

We all know what a green bean is, but what happens when a recipe calls for snap beans, string beans, wax beans or haricot vert?

We’re at a six-booth lunch counter in downtown Norfolk ordering pork plates. “Spoonbread with that?” says Clara, the waitress. I’m afraid to ask her what that is. I’ve gone through this before in Southern eateries. Ignorance of their cuisine is just, plain, dad-gum ignorant. And stupid.