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Byline: John Edward Young A Christmas meal, whether celebrated on the night before or on Christmas day, pretty much follows ethnic lines around the world. In Britain, the once common [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Sure enough, it has happened again this year, just like clockwork. It's been this way for millenniums: It's autumn! Where I live, it usually comes with [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Every year it happens. I promise myself I won't grow more than one zucchini plant, and every year I break that promise. Zucchini has boundless energy [...]

Byline: John Edward Young We all have those indelible food memories that stick out like spinach between our teeth. I've had my share of the good (Grandmother's Toll House Cookies), [...]

Byline: John Edward Young I've adopted a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy when it comes to certain recipes - those that include anchovies. No one seems to be shy about [...]

Byline: John Edward Young It came as no surprise to be dazzled by the sights on my first trip to Thailand years ago: the splendid golden-spired temples, flocks of saffron-robed [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Belgian endive is that smooth, pale, delicate leafy green in the rather audacious chicory family. A demure Natalie Portman in a family of Lady Gagas. Its [...]

Byline: John Edward Young It wasn't just the sugary beaches and warm turquoise waters that winked at me. It was the self-proclaimed appellation as the 'Cuisine Capital of the Caribbean' [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Bouillabaisse, that ancient and legendary fish stew, has a history as rich and colorful as its ingredients. Over the centuries along the coast of Marseille in [...]

Byline: John Edward Young They're the darlings of state fairs. You've seen the pictures. They are those pumpkins big as a VW Beetle, and about as heavy. Some top the [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Give me a pair of thick, pan-fried pork chops, cooked to a perfect pinkness, with homemade applesauce and sauerkraut on the side, and I'm in hog [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Just look at those beautiful supermarket tomatoes. Perfectly shaped, perfectly smooth, perfectly red. Perfectly awful! They're just one step up from those four-in-a-row, hard, pink tomatoes [...]

Byline: John Edward Young One of the best things I did in my garden a few years ago was to plant raspberry bushes. It was also one of the worst [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Grilling is as old as fire. But things have evolved since Fred and Wilma Flintstone grilled their mammoth burgers and breast of pterodactyl at get-togethers. It's [...]

Byline: John Edward Young If it were true that you are what you eat, I'd have feathers, webbed feet, and probably be a better swimmer. Any friends who have dined [...]

Byline: John Edward Young When I was growing up, homemade soup was a three-letter word: PEA. That's the only soup I can remember Mother making. Mr. Campbell, however, was always [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Plymouth, Mass. No matter how you spell it, or even if you can't (I always have to look it up) hors d'oeuvres set the tone and [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor PLYMOUTH, MASS. -- Salmon is called the king of fish. With its steely, silver skin, as shiny as King Arthur's [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Plymouth, Mass. -- In the United States, potatoes, in their unassuming way, have been an integral part of dinner. For [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Plymouth, Mass. -- The Newtons. What a wonderfully diverse family. We all know of Sir Isaac, and his affinity for [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Plymouth, Mass. -- Lemons get a bad squeeze. Think about it: Why is a clunker of a car called a [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Plymouth, Mass. -- Old Man Winter slept in a little too long this year. Those eagerly awaited harbingers of spring [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Plymouth, Mass. -- A big bowl of home-baked beans has more bounce than Beyonce. At my house, a steaming pot [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Plymouth, Mass. -- The noble lion may be the anointed king of the jungle, but beneath the briny sea, it's [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor What are your memories of Thanksgiving as a little kid? Probably, if they're anything like mine, it was of Mother [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Depending on where you live, the pumpkin crop this year was either abundant or abysmal. Some of the gourds suffered [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Plymouth, Mass. -- Spring brings a bounty of fresh garden salad greens. These are among the first seeds to be [...]

Byline: John Edward Young Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Plymouth, Mass. -- Fennel is one of those odd-looking vegetables that looks like it came out of a book by [...]

Race in America: Responses to Cynthia Tucker's column 'Stereotypes fester --- thanks even to Young,' @issue, Aug. 27 Viewpoint shouldn't determine who can speak If what Andy Young said is [...]

Focus on superintendent's pay is unwarranted I am appalled by criticism of Atlanta Superintendent Beverly Hall's salary. As a teacher in the Atlanta Public Schools system, I count it as [...]

Byline: JOHN BELL YOUNG BACH: FRENCH SUITES NOS. 3 AND 5; PARTITAS NOS. 1 AND 2. MARIANNA RASHKOVETSKY, PIANO. AMERICUS (WWW.AMERICUSCD.COM) Marianna Rashkovetsky is a Bach player to the manner [...]

Byline: JOHN BELL YOUNG BEETHOVEN: PIANO CONCERTOS 1-5, PIANIST PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD, CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF EUROPE TELDEC CLASSICS: In comparison to Mozart, who in his short life composed a few dozen [...]

Byline: JOHN BELL YOUNG VLADIMIR FELTSMAN, RUSSIAN SOUVENIR (URTEXT): A reading of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition that refuses to exploit it for its maximum speed and volume is a [...]

Byline: JOHN BELL YOUNG Many years ago, in the luxurious Manhattan townhouse of Vladimir and Wanda Horowitz, a prominent young pianist named Constance Keene asked, after a game of bridge [...]

Byline: JOHN BELL YOUNG If there is one thing that identifies pianist Vladimir Feltsman's Russian sensibility, it is the ease with which he makes his confident proclamations. 'If you ask [...]

Byline: JOHN BELL YOUNG If there is one word that invariably raises the eyebrows of a classical music critic, it is 'legend.'' That said, the quiet introduction over the past [...]

Byline: GINA VIVINETTO; BRIAN ORLOFF; JOHN BELL YOUNG; PHILIP BOOTH JURASSIC 5, POWER IN NUMBERS (INTERSCOPE) Hip-hop innovators Jurassic 5 have delivered Power in Numbers, a sophomore album steeped in [...]