Lastest Stories by Colman Andrews

The Instant Pot is a kitchen workhorse — an all-in-one slow cooker, pressure cooker, steamer, yogurt maker, sterilizer, rice cooker, sauté pan, food warmer, and probably a few other things as...
The French are apparently tired of changing their clocks twice a year. European Union regulations have long required members to observe the spring-ahead/fall-behind reset “in order to cater for...
Pinterest, today the third most popular social media platform in the world (after Facebook and Instagram) — making its co-founder one of the richest millennial entrepreneurs ever — launched in...
If the polar bear is an international icon, Coca-Cola has something to do with the situation: It first used an image of the animal in a print ad in France in 1922, and for the next 70 years or so,...
Almost 40% of Americans patronize a fast food restaurant at least once a day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Maybe some people actually frequent these chains in search...
While country music may not please every music listener’s taste, the genre often produces songs that slip into the mainstream and become exceedingly popular. These songs may find wide appeal by...
There are said to be more than 10,000 different wine grape varieties grown around the globe. And according to wine commerce site Wine-Searcher, as it reported last summer, its files alone include...
Exactly when and where the first chocolate shops opened in America is uncertain, but early contenders for the honor include The Original Velatis, which set up shop selling caramels (some of them...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is an umbrella term for progressive lung diseases, primarily chronic bronchitis and emphysema — conditions that make breathing increasingly difficult. Most...
Success can be fleeting for popular musicians. Even those artists who release a string of hits often fall out of public favor because of changing tastes, poor song choices, personality clashes, or...
There’s no official definition of the term “one-hit wonder” in the music world, but it usually refers to a recording artist who has had a sole No. 1 hit (or one that charted near the top for a...
It’s hard to imagine Italian cooking without tomatoes. From caprese salad and bruschetta to chicken cacciatore, mozzarella marinara, eggplant parmigiana, and many kinds of pizza, they are essential...
We eat more and more seafood every year in America, including fresh, canned, and cured or smoked fish and shellfish. We ate 16 pounds of seafood per capita in 2017, according to the Fisheries of the...
All cheese is basically the same thing: coagulated milk curds. The milk might come from cows, sheep, goats, water buffalo (as in Mozzarella di Bufala), even yaks or camels. (There is also plant-based...
Live music used to be the only kind there was. The earliest recorded example is thought to be a rendering of the French folk song “Au Clair de la Lune,” captured by a Parisian printer and...