There are restaurants that slash prices on margaritas or invite a mariachi band for Cinco de Mayo - and then there are restaurants that go a little nuts.

The owners of the new Ginban Modern Japanese Cuisine in Ahwatukee Foothills are combining traditional technique with a modern flare.

The Kyrene Family Resource Center supports students in need at all 25 schools in the Kyrene School District. In just one month, Feb. 1-28, the Resource Center distributed 114 food boxes serving 502 individuals.

Hunger may seem like a problem only faced far away, but local churches say it’s a problem right here in Ahwatukee Foothills.

If your goal is to lose weight, look and feel your best and live a healthy, vibrant life, be aware of the damaging additives and synthetic chemicals in the foods you buy and eat. Seventy-five percent of the average American diet is from processed and packaged foods, which equates to approximately 10 pounds of additives eaten annually.

Whenever Esi Impraim’s mother made jollof — a rich, tomato-laced dish of meats, rice and sometimes seafood — the time it took to bubble away on the stove was always excruciating.

Rick McConnell didn’t intend to spend the last 28 years coaching boys basketball at Dobson.

The 3-year-old resource center in Tempe serving Ahwatukee families is in need of food donations for April.

Pressure cookers never really did much for me. They seemed fussy — and scary! All those stories about explosions...

Just as students from Kyrene Altadeña Middle School got into the flow of packing boxes of food this week for the Feed My Starving Children organization, a song came blaring from the back of the warehouse that seemed almost divinely planned.

I made sushi at home the other day for the first time ever. And it didn’t go that badly, surprisingly. I wouldn’t have thought so just 24 hours earlier.

"Blessed are those who are generous, because they feed the poor” (Proverbs 22:9).

The day of the big game calls for big, stick-to-your-ribs grub.

You can call it a peppercorn all you like, but the peppery ingredient that puts the buzz in Sichuan-style cooking actually isn’t one.

Chinese New Year is the sort of new year celebration I love.

I’m always searching for ways to make a healthier version of risotto, one of my favorite winter Italian dishes.

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Calling it a compromise between extremes, Attorney General Tom Horne on Wednesday proposed training and arming the principal or other top administrator at every public school.

Stan Way, a Latter-day Saint from Jasper, Ala., had just finished dinner out with some Mormon missionaries when he noticed a car slowing as it approached.

In all the rush to conquer holiday shopping, don’t forget the pets on your list.