Evening Edge
What’s For Dinner?
Talk and Tips
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
Feeding Frenzy
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Jeanne Besser blogs about the daily challenge of balancing work, family and tonight's dinner.
Today's topic: Does practice make recipes perfect?
Smart Eating
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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?
Hot topics
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- '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
Atlanta farmers markets
- Find a farmers market or produce stand near you to get farm-fresh fruits and vegetables in season.
Atlanta calendar
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
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Tips and resources for stretching your food dollar as grocery prices soar
- 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

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Cool desserts
- Homemade frozen yogurt: Recipes | Photos | Iced tea | Ice cream | Smoothies
- 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
- How a concept might backfire (hint, hint)
- Are benefits of organic food worth the cost?
- Blueberry time in Georgia
- Biscuits from scratch
- A visit to Murphy's restaurant
- Fresh from the Oven recipes
- More Evening Edge photo galleries
- 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
Ideas about food
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Shrimp: The star of summer!
John Kessler
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Musings about food and more
Fit to Eat
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On eating healthy





