Labor Day dining

Are you ready to send summer out in style? It's a good weekend to cook on the grill or plan a picnic. And if you don't want to cook, pick up barbecue or your favorite takeout.
• Easy recipes: Sauces and rubs | Grilling recipes | Deviled Eggs | Potato Salad | Frozen Desserts | Desserts with berries
• Atlanta Summer Entertainment: Atlanta Day Trips | Beaches and water parks | Labor Day events and places to go

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

Today's topic: Does practice make recipes perfect?

An Atlanta blog by Elizabeth Lee guiding you to good cooking, food shopping and eating choices.

Today's topic: What does it take to reinvent a restaurant?

• Can McDonald's overtake Starbucks? as the coffeeshop of choice?
• How much sugar is too much?
• 'Salad Day' could save your sanity this summer
• Are cookbooks necessary?
• How do you split the check among friends?
• Latest food safety news from AJC.com

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

• 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

Saving Dough

Tips and resources for stretching your food dollar as grocery prices soar
Pouya Dianat / AJC    
• Price watch: Snickers and M&Ms will cost more | Lower gas prices don't mean lower food prices
• Coupon Mom: Loyalty to savings, not brand names | Her top saving tips
• We asked, and you answered: Best money-saving tips from readers and budget recipes, including the kid-tested Taco Mountain
• Dining out: Coupons can reduce your meal ticket | Order an appetizer and salad, then split dessert
• 31 ways to save: More advice from your Atlanta neighbors
• Blog: Stretching your food dollar? What's your best tip?
• One family's story: Feeding 10 on $250 a week
• Cooking: Low-cost recipes
• Gas money: Saving on travel, gas, events and more
• More Saving Dough links

Cool desserts

• Homemade frozen yogurt: Recipes | Photos | Iced tea | Ice cream | Smoothies


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


John Kessler

Musings about food and more
• How a concept might backfire (hint, hint) 
  
  


Fit to Eat

On eating healthy
• Are benefits of organic food worth the cost? 
  
  


Photo galleries

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

Evening Edge specials

• Frank talk: Why we love hot dogs | Pigs in a Kimono and more recipes
• Taqueria del Sol: Mexican cooking with a Southern flavor
• The Art of the Biscuit, Making easy biscuits from scratch, by Scott Peacock of Watershed
• Class assignment: Dinner party: UGA students offer tips for making it easy
• More Evening Edge specials