Movable feast

Plan a summer picnic: Recipes for food that travels well to outdoor concerts, movies on the green and other places to enjoy the outdoors during a metro Atlanta summer
• Packing the picnic basket | Picnic ideas | Takeout for the park
• Atlanta Summer Entertainment: Outdoor dining | Summer events calendar | Summer music guide

Jeanne Besser blogs about the daily challenge of balancing work, family and tonight's dinner.

Today's topic: Do you stay the course...“weather or not"?

Hot topics

• Do your kids eat school lunch?
• Waiter, this meal stinks!
• Are gas prices cutting into your food budget??
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Featured blogs

• MOMania: Raising healthy children without going insane
• Table Talk: A blog about food
• Get Schooled: Info and talk about education in Georgia
• Better Health: Taking care of you and your family

Food vacations

Plan your next vacaction around a food or wine theme, with ideas for visiting Fun Food Factories, American Ice Cream Parlors or a Barbecue Paradise.

• On ajc.com/travel: Book your trip

Farmers markets

Find a produce market near you to get farm-fresh fruits and vegetables in season.

Food events

• Atlanta Summer Guide: Picnic ideas for you and your honey or a crowd 
  
  
• May 15: Taste of Alpharetta
• May 31: Taste of Chamblee
• June 4: Culinaire 2008, World of Coke
• More Atlanta food events

John Kessler

Musings about food and more
• N.Y. eatery's snob appeal doesn't play in Atlanta 
  
  

Fit to Eat

On eating healthy
• Let the sunshine in to build vitamin D 
  
  

Photo galleries

• Biscuits from Scratch
• Paula Deen and Atlanta cooking show
• A visit to Murphy's restaurant
• Fresh from the Oven recipes
• More Evening Edge photo galleries

Evening Edge specials

• Saving cash: 7 ways to stretch your food dollar
• The Art of the Biscuit, Making easy biscuits from scratch, by Scott Peacock of Watershed
• For busy cooks: Women chefs offer advice on how to solve tonight's dinner dilemma
• Class assignment: Dinner party: UGA students offer tips for making it easy
• Q&A with Paula Deen: The 'Lady' from Savannah talks about her favorite kitchen gadget and cooking while busy
• Running the Peachtree? Here are some nutrition and recipe ideas for runners

Tools for cooks

• Emergency substitutions
• Food definitions
• Names: Would you call your kid Vidalia? Browse our list of unusual, food-themed child names in Georgia
• Food and Drink news and features, ajc.com