July 6, 2000

[Times photo: Patty Yablonski]
Watermelon, strawberries, pineapple -- just about any fruit -- make a refreshing summer cooler when simply blended with a few ingredients. Story
A real page (and stomach) turner
Eat out much? You'll enjoy -- and be alarmed by -- Kitchen Confidential, in which one outspoken chef dishes about what goes on in restaurant kitchens.
So you want to be a chef?
Here are New York chef and author Anthony Bourdain's 14 tips for wanna-be chefs, excerpted from Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.
Food file
Nibbles and bits from the food world.
It's Bush -- if you're talking cookies
The bake-off between the wives of presidential candidates comes down to one crucial issue: chocolate.
The sweet rewards of summer arrive
Berries red, blue and blushing yellow will vie for attention in produce departments this month. Some markets may even carry an exotic new kiwifruit, fuzzless on the outside and golden on the inside.
If you want choice and spicy and good, here's the place
China Delight offers a menu packed with 158 dishes and will make a dish as spicy as you wish.