Food

For decades, those with high cholesterol have been given a list of don'ts when it comes to their diet: Don't eat cholesterol-rich eggs; don't eat butter; don't eat red meat or regular ice cream. Well, now researchers have identified a list of do's for the diet that may work to lower cholesterol levels better than avoiding those don'ts. In a study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found that eating cholesterol-lowering foods like nuts, soy protein, and certain fiber-rich items result in bigger drops in "bad" LDL cholesterol than avoiding...

A special event in Plymouth centered on a film about bees and beekeepers called "Queen of the Sun" promises to be a honey of an evening. Called "A Night of Food Film" by its collaborators, Plimoth Cinema (the ongoing film series at Plimoth Plantation) and Plymouth Farmers' Market, the evening includes the feature film, inventive tastings of locally sourced cuisine from the market's farmers and food-makers, and a speakers' panel of local beekeepers spiced with the plantation's foodways expert.

Polls show that frustration with Washington has never been higher — and who could argue? Most Americans believe the country is on the wrong track. Most lawmakers openly concede that nothing will get done before the November elections. The leaders of both parties are already trading threats over the possibility of a national debt default next year. Barack Obama got elected by promising to change the tone in Washington, but clearly he's failed, as George W. Bush did before him. That should be a clue that the partisan animosity consuming the political system doesn't originate in the White House.

Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash — sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist — and then asking the government for replacement cards. The Agriculture Department wants to curb the practice by giving states more power to investigate people who repeatedly claim to lose their benefit cards. It is proposing new rules Thursday that would allow states to demand formal explanations from people who seek replacement cards more than three times a year.

Globe Staff File Photo/Mark Wilson Olives has been unofficially feeding people for a few days now, getting back in gear and using guests as guinea pigs to try out dishes new and old. (The food was free, but they paid for their own drinks.) Thursday, the reopening is official. "So many people have come up and said, 'We're so happy to have you back,'" says chef Todd English. But don't expect English and crew to be serving the kind of Big Food pictured above, the way Olives served customers circa 1996.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday. Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple, according to a guest authorized to speak for the couple. The person spoke only on the condition of anonymity. Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, the same day...

It t ook about 12 years, lots of hard work, and a healthy sense of youthful invincibility — seasoned with a dash of arrogance — for Andy Husbands and Chris Hart to win 30 Kansas City Barbecue Society championships, hundreds of barbecue ribbons, and the biggest prize of them all, the Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue, held every October in Lynchburg, Tenn. And with the help of our IQUE barbecue teammates (our name is I que, as in "I barbecue"), we had more fun than we might even be able to remember.

CAMBRIDGE - At 16, Kavita Shukla was an inventor, and a socially conscious one at that. Her story begins when she was visiting her grandmother in New Delhi and accidentally drank some tap water. Her grandmother mixed up a home remedy using extracts from the plant fenugreek and other botanicals to prevent Shukla from getting an upset stomach. It worked so well that when Shukla returned home to Maryland, she reproduced the mixture and tested it around the house. She found it inhibited the growth of bacteria.

It would appear that fast food chain Burger King has beaten McDonalds, Wendy's, and the rest to the punch and made the move into widespread delivery. It is the next logical step after the drive-thru window. People wanted to be able to purchase a high-fat, low-nutrition meal without having to make the arduous walk from the parking lot to the counter, and why not. If you are going to spend a full $5.95 on a meal that is basically calories on a bun, why waste your hard earned cash losing some of those calories on your way to buy them?

Friendly's Ice Cream LLC leader Harsha V. Agadi is expected today to resign as chairman and chief executive of the troubled chain, and the company's chief marketing officer is also leaving in several weeks. The leadership shake-up comes one month after the Wilbraham restaurant business emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Agadi, who joined Friendly's in August 2010 and invested his own money in the company, will remain on the board. Friendly's chief operating officer, James M. Parrish, is stepping in today as interim chief executive as Friendly's...

By Natalie Feulner, Town Correspondent St. Luke's Lutheran Church will hold its second annual "Feed the Need" 5K walk or run Saturday, June 9, to raise money for the Dedham Food Pantry. The event is being sponsored by Feed the Need, a nonprofit organization of volunteers that works to promote education and awareness of local hunger issues through physical activities such as road races. The race's entry fee is 25 cans of food or $20, and the first 100 people to arrive on race day will receive a shirt.

It t ook about 12 years, lots of hard work, and a healthy sense of youthful invincibility — seasoned with a dash of arrogance — for Andy Husbands and Chris Hart to win 30 Kansas City Barbecue Society championships, hundreds of barbecue ribbons, and the biggest prize of them all, the Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue, held every October in Lynchburg, Tenn. And with the help of our IQUE barbecue teammates (our name is I que, as in "I barbecue"), we had more fun than we might even be able to remember.

Portland, Maine's Anna Kendrick was in London on Tuesday to promote her comedy "What to Expect When You're Expecting," in which she plays a pregnant food truck chef opposite "Gossip Girl" star Chace Crawford . In a case of life imitating art, Portland officials have spent the last few weeks talking about how to bring food trucks to the city.

Tatte Bakery & Cafe, opened earlier this month, is the newest addition to the Kendall Square food mecca. This is the second and more ambitious location of the Brookline bakery Tatte Fine Cookies & Cakes, owned by Israel-born pastry chef Tzurit Or. The Kendall spot offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and coffee and little baked luxuries all day. Taste some of Or's favorite dishes from her homeland and North Africa, along with European classics,...

It t ook about 12 years, lots of hard work, and a healthy sense of youthful invincibility — seasoned with a dash of arrogance — for Andy Husbands and Chris Hart to win 30 Kansas City Barbecue Society championships, hundreds of barbecue ribbons, and the biggest prize of them all, the Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue, held every October in Lynchburg, Tenn. And with the help of our IQUE barbecue teammates (our name is I que, as in "I barbecue"), we had more fun than we might even be able to remember.

Abusy nutritionist might help, oh, 1,000 clients a year. Kendra Bird assists half a million — not singlehandedly, of course. The director of nutrition for the Greater Boston Food Bank oversees the safety, quality, and healthfulness of the 37 million pounds of food that pass through the Food Bank annually — goods that in turn are distributed to 549 hunger-relief agencies and 490 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters throughout the Commonwealth....

Today the Globe writes about local success Pretty Things . Are you a fan of their beer? We also review the Painted Burro in Somerville this week. Have you been? What are your thoughts? Tim Cushman of o ya wins a James Beard award. Guy Fieri is in town. Shake Shack is coming. We'll talk about that and more at 11. Devra First on restaurants -- May 16 at 11 a.m.

This summer, like millions of readers before me, I devoured George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. It was HBO's adaptation, "Game of Thrones," that sucked me in, with its treacherous queens, backstabbing advisers, illegitimate children, and quip-happy dwarves, a cross between "Lord of the Rings" and "Flowers in the Attic. " What's not to like? But what kept me reading, through five books and some 4,000 pages, was the food. Martin describes the dishes consumed by his characters with mouthwatering, loving specificity.

A STUDENT at Codman Academy, a charter public high school in Dorchester, once wrote a paper about buying some fresh fruit for lunch. She'd have to take a bus for miles, past fast food restaurants and liquor stores, to get to a produce market. It was a call to action for Mbakwe Okafor, Codman's wellness director. His mission: to pull students with few options for healthy eating off the road to obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. But that was a challenge at Codman, which has no athletic facilities, and no kitchen or cafeteria.

JUNE 23 DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine The Maine Whoopie Pie Festival: Derided by a legislator as a mere "frosting delivery vehicle," the humble whoopie pie nonetheless secured the title of "official state treat" and even has its own festival. About 30 whoopie pie bakers will be handing out samples and competing for honors. Festival judges select the best traditional and unique (think piña colada or peanut butter) pies, while visitors vote for the People's Choice.