A calibrated food thermometer is one way to help ensure food safety.

Serving fruits and vegetables is a way to add flavor, color, variety and nutrition to your snack buffet.

Comfort food often is associated with foods that provide emotional comfort or nostalgic feelings.

We have a lot of information at our fingertips when shopping.

Perishable food should spend no more than two hours at room temperature.

Half of the people who responded to a national phone survey said they use social media, such as Facebook, to learn about food.

According to a 2004 report from the National Fire Data Center, more than 156,000 kitchen fires occurred in the U.S. in 2002.

We all need protein as part of a nutritious, well-balanced diet.

If you don’t have a food thermometer, you need to get one.

Meat, poultry, fish, milk and other high-protein foods spoil quickly when above 40 degrees for more than two hours, but condiments such as ketchup, mustard and ...