A perfectly ripe, buttery avocado is so delicious, you might be tempted to eat the green flesh scooped straight from its shell, with a sprinkle of salt. But the level of ripeness is critical to ...

Tom Sietsema has been The Washington Post's food critic since 2000. In leaner years, he worked for the Microsoft Corp., where he launched sidewalk.com; the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; the San ...

Melissa Gray is a senior producer for Weekend Edition. She got her start in public radio at WUGA in Athens, Georgia. Since joining NPR in 1999, she's written, produced, reported and edited ...

That’s why one of the first things your Minecraft base should have is a farm or two. To start with, the easiest crop to farm is wheat. Seeds drop from breaking grass blocks, and can then be ...

After two limos lose control, one vehicle is left teetering on a frozen lake. Fingers grasping for life, desperate to escape. Who will make it out alive? Multi award-winning soap Emmerdale is set ...

The rest goes for costs beyond the farm gate: wages and materials for production, processing, marketing, transportation and distribution. 30% of all farmers are beginning farmers (in business less ...

The key criteria for those in the top-tier positions appear to be loyalty, wealth, and ideological fervor, not competence.

“It’s a small working farm,” Emma said. “We’re both country people through and through, and living in Geelong with Tom’s career enables us to live on a bit of land. “It’s really nice bringing up our ...