Teresa Taylor
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Teresa Taylor is an assistant features editor for The Post and Courier who oversees the Food, Home & Garden and Petc. sections. Her first love and primary responsibility is the food beat, which she took over in 2003 after more than 20 years at the newspaper in other editing positions. She writes stories for Wednesday's Food section and a recipe exchange column for home cooks called "Now We're Cooking," which appears in Sunday editions. Taylor joined the company in 1983 as a copy editor for The News and Courier, having previously worked for Gannett's Westchester-Rockland newspaper group in White Plains, N.Y. She became weekend editor in 1987, news editor of The Evening Post in 1990, and executive business editor of The Post and Courier in 1991.
Recent Stories
Milky Way cakes out of this world
Lee Etta Messick can't find her recipe for Milky Way Cake -- haven't we all been through that? No more lost in space: Several readers located recipes. Milky Way is a senior citizen of American candy bars.
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Dutch's Portobello Mushroom Burger
Cowboy grub?
The '50s and '60s were the golden era of TV Westerns, the glorious days of "The Lone Ranger," "Rawhide," "Bonanza" and many more. I, like a gazillion other kids, dreamed of being a cowgirl, or cowboy, whatever.
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Savor Italy at opening for film fest
Food cinema is the point of this week's Taste of Italy Italian Film Festival, but good food to eat will play a supporting role on opening night.
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Culinary history of leeks goes way back
It's not exactly the secret life of leeks, but you probably don't know: --The Roman emperor Nero consumed a lot of leeks, believing it would improve his singing voice. He was nicknamed "Porrophagus," or leek-eater.
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Finding your pumpkin's Halloween face
There's nothing like carving a pumpkin to get in a bewitching mood. Glowing orbs with frightening or funny faces are the eye candy of Halloween.
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From 'Heart Smart' to Southern liver pudding
We're going to swing on the food pendulum today between extremes, starting from the healthy side. A couple of months ago, Roper St. Francis Healthcare produced a small cookbook, "Heart Smart Home Cookin'."
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Schrafft's Oatmeal, Raisin and Walnut Cookies
Craving cookies
With a craving for a big, old-fashioned oatmeal cookie -- must be this hearty October weather -- I went on a hunt until finding this treasure in "The Pleasures of Cooking for One" by Judith Jones.
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Bacon crazy
French Toast Napoleon wins top honors during celebration of the sublime swine
On a sizzling October day, Aaron Richard proves how everything tastes better with bacon, only he has a different way of saying it.
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We succumb to that sizzle
Craving bacon-centric foods? James Villas offers up 150 recipes, as well as practical information and tips, in 'The Bacon Cookbook' (Wiley, 2007).
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Cream cake may be more Southern than Italian
Someone posted this on an online bulletin board :"I am pretty sure that it is about as Italian as I am, which is not at all." Ha!
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