St. Petersburg Times Online: Taste

The Twinkie transformed The decadent snack cake gets deep-fried and dressed up. In New York, a shop sells them for $3 a Twinkie. At home, our experiments produce tony Twinkie medallions. Story
[Times photo:
Patty Yablonski]

Not so positively Fourth Street
The crowds at the new Evos in St. Petersburg have seconded the notion that Bonefish Grill put forward 2 1/2 years ago: Fourth Street N lusts for contemporary graphics, even those flaunted in Tampa for eight years.

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Special events and food tastings

Dish
cold snap

You asked for it: Fig cookies from the Boston-baked scene
Shirley Wall asked for the recipe for two-crust fig cookies that are popular in Boston. Joyce Von Horn has just the thing.