Curtrise Garner: Don't settle with soup (Detroit News)

Sure, it's quick and tasty enough, but there's nothing like leaning over a pot of fresh soup and sniffing the contents.

Slow, healthy and delicious (Dayton Daily News)

It's been said that everything old is new again, which may in part, explain the recent surge in slow cooker sales. Once known simply as the Crock-Pot, today's slow cooker is a high-tech, multipurpose appliance that allows one to bake, steam and stew.

In Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Canada, a tortilla is a kind of thin, unleavened flat bread, made from finely ground maize (corn) or wheat flour. A similar bread from South America is called arepa (though arepas are typically much thicker than tortillas). This form of bread pre-dates the arrival of Europeans to America, and was called "tortilla" by the Spanish from its resemblance to the traditional Spanish round unleavened cakes and omelettes (originally made without potatoes, which are native to South America). The Aztecs and other Nahuatl-speakers called their tortillas by the name “tlaxcalli”: these have become the prototypical tortillas. The maize version is the original North American tortilla and is regarded by many as the "authentic" tortilla. Flour tortillas originated in regions of Mexico unsuited for growing corn.