Recipes of the year

Bacchanalia's Fricassed Chicken is one of our 10 favorite recipes of 2008. Get the recipe and see what else made the best of the year list in our annual Golden Whisk Awards. Some recipes just deserve to be served again.

Our recipe picks | Your favorite recipes

MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Cook up some help for Atlanta's non-profits.

Feeding Frenzy

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

Today's topic: Are you burned out from holiday cooking?
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John Kessler

Musings about food and more
• New blog: Food & More
• Hours of low-temperature cooking yield tender, juicy meat 
  
  

Fit to Eat

On eating healthy
• What you eat can help the environment, too 
  
  

Smart Eating

An Atlanta blog guiding to good choices in cooking, food shopping and eating.

Today's topic: Eating green vs. eating vegetarian: Kate Geagan's top tips

Food vacations

Plan your next vacation 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

Atlanta farmers markets

• Find a farmers market or produce stand near you to get farm-fresh fruits and vegetables in season.
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Atlanta calendar

• Food events
• Markets and sales
• Local festivals

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
• Latest food safety news from AJC.com

What's new

• Forget tabloids and resolutions; put balance in your life 
• Start a six-month plan for losing weight 
• Newest recipes

Dinner Dare with Kevin Rathbun

We challenged this Atlanta celebrity chef to make a holiday dinner in three hours or less

• The menu: Turkey over Dumplings, Brussel Sprouts and Greens, Pecan and Sweet Potato Tamales, dessert
• Video: Making the holiday Tamales
• Ask the chef
• More Dinner Dare chefs: Linton Hopkins of Restaurant Eugene | Virginia Willis | Anne Quatrano of Bacchanalia | About Dinner Dare

Saving Dough

Tips and resources for stretching your food dollar as grocery prices soar
• Cooking: Low-cost recipes
• Your money: Saving on travel, gas, events and more
• Coupon Mom: Stephanie Nelson's 10 tip penny-pinching tips
• We asked, and you answered: Best money-saving tips from readers and budget recipes, including the kid-tested Taco Mountain
• More Saving Dough stories

Photo galleries

• Blueberry time in Georgia
• Biscuits from scratch
• A visit to Murphy's restaurant
• More Evening Edge photo galleries

Evening Edge specials

• Tomato aspic: A new look at this Southern gelatin classic | Old Southern Tea Room Tomato Aspic Salad and more recipes and the stories behind them | Tomato Aspic photo gallery
• Taqueria del Sol: Mexican cooking with a Southern flavor
• The Art of the Biscuit, Making easy biscuits from scratch, by Scott Peacock of Watershed
• Frank talk: Why we love hot dogs | Pigs in a Kimono and more recipes
• Class assignment: Dinner party: UGA students offer tips for making it easy
• More Evening Edge specials

Ideas about food

Shrimp: The star of summer!
• Recipes: Jumbo BBQ Shrimp from Parish | More shrimp recipes
• How to: Butterflying shrimp made easy
• Buying Shrimp: Wild, farm-raised or imported? Why it matters