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Byline: Jim Webster - - - Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the name of the Charlotte Rescue Mission. The article has been corrected. - - - CHARLOTTE, [...]

Byline: Jim Webster Can you even have Christmas without chaos? Would we even recognize the holiday without it? Sure, thereÇÖs Ç£Silent Night,Ç¥ but thereÇÖs also Ç£Grandma Got Run Over by [...]

Byline: Jim Webster As part of my job, I sometimes get to test recipes by other people. This is a really great part of the job, to be honest, because [...]

Byline: Jim Webster At first glance, the banh mi would seem to be an ideal sandwich to adapt for a plant-based diet. That's because, in the photo-ready version of the [...]

Byline: Jim Webster There was a time when an egg roll and hot-and-sour soup was my favorite way to start a meal of Chinese takeout before proceeding to an entree [...]

Byline: Jim Webster A few weeks ago, I wrote about a cabbage salad that I like to make, and it was fun reading the feedback to it. Most of the [...]

Byline: Jim Webster When the plate of pasta landed at the table, it was so plain that if I were anywhere else, I would have been skeptical if not outright [...]

Byline: Jim Webster Beets can be so divisive. Some people love them. And other people are wrong. For a long time, I was persuaded by the notion that the latter [...]

Byline: Jim Webster It is infinitely surprising to me the connections you can make through food. I grew up as a committed omnivore in rural Central Florida in the 1980s, [...]

Byline: Jim Webster I have a theory about soup recipes. They're superfluous. That's because soup is really just a formula. You fill a few variables in different ways to end [...]

Byline: Jim Webster We were just having lunch when all of a sudden I realized that I had applied for a job and was already in the interview. Joe Yonan [...]

Byline: Jim Webster When it all gets to be too much and I feel like I need to do something even when there is absolutely nothing I can do, I [...]

Byline: Jim Webster Chef Sheldon Simeon says two of the questions he gets asked most often are whether Spam is really popular in Hawaii and if he eats a lot [...]

Byline: Jim Webster If you want to get me flowers for Valentine's Day, I like irises and hydrangeas. Bonus points if they're purple. If you want to get creative and [...]

Byline: Jim Webster If I could give you the details of the dish I'm working on, I would. I would describe what the finished dish looks like, with a poetic [...]

Byline: Jim Webster When I looked at the menu, the kulfi sounded interesting. I had never heard of it, and I was intrigued. I wanted to try it, but there [...]

Byline: Jim Webster As a physician who worked for 35 years at a level one trauma hospital in Chicago, I have seen much too much gun violence. House Bill 7, [...]

Byline: Noy Thrupkaew and Jim Webster When you vacation at the Disney resorts in Florida or California, every moment of every day can be filled with Disney-related activities. You can [...]

Byline: Jim Webster Adam Duritz, frontman of the roots-rock group Counting Crows, is standing 50 feet in front of me singing 'Miami' in a packed farm field near Nashville on [...]

Byline: Jim Webster A neutral, outside political observer could easily come to the conclusion that the U.S. is adopting a mix of the 'best' aspects of the governing plans described [...]

Byline: Jim Webster For years, most people have known Wilmington, Delaware, only as the place they send their credit card payments. The city has been the return address for an [...]

The article focuses on responses to David Brooks' column "The Sins of the Educated Class," criticizing his portrayal of elite-educated individuals and their supposed disconnect from everyday Americans, with letter writers arguing that Brooks' perspective is dismissive of the diverse experiences.

Byline: Jim Webster I'm about to confront my darkest demon, and it looks just like a plate of delicious corn risotto. On the surface, there wouldn't seem to be a [...]

Byline: Jim Webster Nashville, Tennessee comes by the nickname Music City honestly, with the Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium, all the honky-tonks lining the neon-illuminated Broadway downtown and myriad smaller [...]

Byline: Jim Webster Just on the other side of the river from downtown Chicago is West Loop, which was and remains an active industrial district. The city wears its blue [...]

Byline: Jim Webster St. Petersburg long ago shed its stereotype as an oversize retirement community, and now as you traverse the city from Tampa Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, [...]

Byline: Jim Webster Because Washington sits at the southwest end of the Northeast Corridor, anyone with interests in the upper reaches of the zone can spend a lot of time [...]

Byline: Jim Webster The word 'Indianapolis' is all but synonymous with a 500-mile car race, and the whole state embraces its connection to basketball, but there's a lot more going [...]

Byline: Jim Webster Ground transportation at Orlando International Airport is designed to persuade visitors to proceed directly to the concentration of hysteria on the southwest side of town. But if [...]

Byline: Jim Webster When I was about 8 years old, I was at a family picnic, running around in my Toughskins - 'husky' fit - and a T-shirt that defied [...]

Byline: Jim Webster I disagree with virtually everything that Zachary Fort wrote in his recent piece ('We're just trying to protect ourselves,' My View, Nov. 5). First, as a member [...]

Byline: Jim Webster At its essence, gravy is an imperative afterthought. It isn't complicated, and it's a way to reclaim intense flavor that would have otherwise been lost to the [...]