If strawberries are your jam, you have to act fast. The season for strawberries has been short.

Carla Plunkett kept a sweatshirt on Saturday as an unseasonably cold day chilled the Cortland City Farmers Market. The chill kept customers away, Plunkett said – in fact, other vendors left early, too. But it was only the second Saturday this season the market was open at a new location, in front of Grace and Holy Spirit Episcopal Church on Court Street. She expected the sales, like the season, will warm up.

Last week I made surf and turf for my son’s birthday. Mike has inherited his grandparents’ love of seafood. We grew up on Long Island and were boaters on the Great South Bay. We …

I swore off chicken a couple of months ago, after making chicken quesedillas for company and, as usual, the chicken took forever to cook. I was paranoid I’d cross-contaminate the other …

My husband bought pork steaks the other day. I have no clue how to cook them. Why pork steaks and not pork chops? They look like pork chops but are flatter, wider and have the bone in them. …

I watched my friend prepare a pasta and vegetable dish one night that was out of this world. Martha Beck is a foodie who’s done it all in the kitchen. She doesn’t think anything of …

My mother used to fry breaded flounder in an electric frying pan and it was so delicious. We lived on Long Island and everyone in the family, except for me, was a big fish eater. My two brothers …