About a week ago, I was at the tail end of a persistent cold. I needed something to help me round the corner and force this sickness out of my system. Chicken noodle soup? No, I needed something more potent,...

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Just like I shouldn’t have to tell you to check out the “Mona Lisa” next time you’re in Paris, I shouldn’t have to tell you to check out Cosmos’ pizzas. (If you want...

Since I graduated from college, I’ve found there are increasingly fewer mornings — or afternoons, for that matter — where I’ve woken with a pounding hangover followed by a pledge...

But there’s no excuse to leave your grill idle and lonely, even if a thin layer of snow is on the ground. Put your gloves on and get to work. Your friends and family will be grateful for it. They...

According to the menu, a Topopo Salad is a “mountain of salad, the Mexican counterpart to the American Chef salad, with lettuce, tomatoes, chicken, cheese, jalapenos, peas and scallions …...

For this week’s edition of the Dish, we’re heading to north Lansing. Old Town? Nope, a little farther. Just keep heading north on Larch Street until it turns into Old U.S. 27. Go a few blocks...

One of Lansing’s newest dispensaries, Nature’s Alternative, opened up on the northeast corner of Cedar Street and Greenlawn Avenue in January. This is the second Nature’s Alternative...

Cultures clashed around me in East Lansing Thursday as I struggled with chopsticks while watching streams of shamrock-clad MSU students parade past the window in search of green beer. Like the bars the...

Oh Italy, you have given us so many wonderful things. Pasta, Lamborghinis Leonardo da Vinci, the operas of Puccini … I could go on. But a certain culinary achievement holds a special place in my...

Let’s run through our Creole sojourns in chronological order. Visit No. 1: I had a hankering for some “N’awlins” chow of the Cajun/ Creole variety, so I went straight for the gumbo...

Located at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Kalamazoo Street, Capital Meds is just about a mile from the Capitol Building. I visited the shop for the first time in December, on recommendation...

We seem to be living in an age where everything that’s old is new again. For proof, look no further than your local cinema, where almost every other film is a “reimagined” take on some...

“Can there be any other business where there’s so much bullshit?” That's Carole Meredith, a grape geneticist at UC Davis, mincing no words about the state of the wine business in the...

Every time I try something there, it becomes my new favorite thing. First it was the Hangover, a breakfast “sandwich” consisting of biscuits topped with smoked pork, two fried eggs, sausage...

Homegrown Provisioning Center, located on Michigan Avenue across from Clara’s Lansing Station, is just a stone’s throw east of downtown Lansing

When Anne Woiwode joined the East Lansing Food Co-op in the early ‘80s, finding healthy food was difficult

It’s true, I am a Coney Island hot dog snob. I’ve wolfed down Coneys from Cincinnati to the West Coast to those famed Coney competitors in Detroit, American Coney Island and Lafayette Coney...

Margaret Nixon’s Flint-style Coney Sauce 1 1/2 lb. ground beef1 1/2 tablespoon paprika1 1/2 tablespoon chili powder1 teaspoon cumin powder1 tablespoon salt1 tablespoon celery salt1/2 teaspoon black

The Green Report typically covers Michigan's medical marijuana market. Last week, however, I traveled to Colorado, one of just two states in the U.S. with legalized recreational marijuana sales