Sara Bir

Pepperoni Rolls

Excerpted from Tasting Ohio: Favorite Recipes from the Buckeye State (Farcountry Press, 2018) They may be the official state snack food of West Virginia, but y...

Pawpaw Pudding

Pawpaw Pudding Serves 6-12 This is an old-fashioned baked pudding, not as creamy as a custard but smooth and rich, with intriguing caramel notes and an undeni...

Sara Bir

For the right person, the right school can be a life changing experience. This is true in the case of local foodie and founding Paste Magazine Food Editor, Sara...

Make Time to Discover Pawpaws

Most of the people living in the Mid-Ohio Valley have never tasted a pawpaw. These egg-shaped fruits have a freckled green skin, and look unassuming enough on t...

Find Career Inspiration in Friendship

“I can’t justify meeting up this month,” I’ve thought a few times. “I’ve got way too much work to do.” But then I listen to my gut, make the time, and gladly se...

Green Meet & Eat

The Lexicon of Sustainability.  Two big words, with a very simple mission, and that mission was highlighted at the “Green Meet & Eat” at the Point Park Mark...

Pop Culture Nostalgia

We went there on a whim. I’d been to Marietta’s Children’s Toy & Doll Museum before, when I was a kid myself. This was in the 1980s on a Girl Scout field tr...

Sweet Corn Dos and Dont’s

Fresh sweet corn is the ne plus ultra of summer produce. Tomatoes bruise and squish more easily, but it is the deceptively delicate sweet corn that demands spec...
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