Wal-Mart is stepping up its effort to draw cost-conscious shoppers, promising that store-brand products from cereal to cookies will be tastier, smell better and look more attractive. ...more

March 17, 2009

Ruth Brellenthin knows her Italian. She is from Long Island, N.Y., where Brooklyn-born Italian Americans moved en masse during the 1960s and 1970s. ...more

November 10, 2008

NUKE THAT PIE Microwave ovens usually turn the texture of bread into something akin to a baseball glove. Tough. Chewy. Disgusting. Which explains why we were surprised to find that the new California Pizza Kitchen Sicilian-style thin-crust pizza serving for one tasted like, well, pizza. We're very much in favor of food that tastes like it should. We tried the DiGiorno version, too, but liked CPK's better. Cost: $3.29. ...more

May 21, 2008