ASPARAGUS AS A FINGER FOOD (Monday, February 18):                All right. It is National Etiquette Week, so I went right to the source: Miss Manners. "Miss Manners, is it proper to eat asparagus with your fingers?

MOTHER’S DAY WITH SPINACH (Monday, May 6):        Hey, Mother's Day weekend is this weekend, so I am doing a lot of things that my mom would absolutely love. Oh, by the way, Billy Joel turned 64- years- old this week. You remember that big song that he had? What, you don't? Well, here it is. "Sing us a song, Mr. Produce Man. Sing us a song tonight. Cuz we're all in the mood for some healthy food, and I want my spinach tonight." You don't remember that one?

LET’S THINK ENGLISH PEAS (Monday, April 29):     Hey, Prince William and Kate are celebrating their second anniversary -- their second wedding anniversary. So I thought -- I was thinking English. English this time of -- take a look at these English peas. I love it that there are more and more grocery stores carrying English peas. Now, there are two types of peas in the world. There's peas that we call an "edible pea pod," those would be like green beans

STORING TOMATOES (Monday, April 22):       Hey, you know the NFL draft begins this week and it got me thinking, you know, you're at the grocery store, you're at the farmers market and you want to pick out the best produce, right? Just like these teams want to pick out the best player for their team. But, you know, you get your produce home and if you don't know how to properly store your produce, then you end up losing a lot of your produce. In fact, the most recent stu

POTATOES (Monday, April 15):   Hey, McDonalds opened up this day, 1955 -- changed the world of spuds -- changed the world of potatoes. Half of all the potatoes we eat are French fries now, but I thought I'd bring in some rustic potatoes. Have you noticed you're walking through the grocery store and you’re seeing a few peepers? That's right. They are peepers. That's what they're actually called. These little, tiny sprouts just starting up on your rustic