By any other name — flatbread! Perhaps no one food conjures more varied images than flatbread. “Almost every culture makes some sort of flatbread,” said Paul Drowns, community cooking educator at the St. Mary’s Nutrition Center on Bates Street in Lewiston. Here in the Northeast, flatbreads have been synonymous with breakfast — and sweetness. In […]

My sister-in-law sent me a Mother’s Day gift this year, the first I’ve ever received. I felt like an imposter when I opened it. I hadn’t forgotten the Toddler, the Infant and the Newborn living with me, three sisters all under the age of 3, but my status as a foster parent is ambiguous by […]

Editor’s note: When two Post Food section staffers each offered what they consider to be superior tomato cocktails that beat your standard bloody mary, we knew we couldn’t choose between them. For readers, it’s a win-win. For the past three summers, one of us (Kara) has been creating bloody mary mixes with fresh tomatoes, an […]

Denmark has some of the world’s happiest people, according to the United Nations World Happiness Report of 2016.Not everything is rosy in the Scandinavian role-model country, however, as its recent backlash against immigrants and refugees has shown. But the Danes are certainly proud of their education and their parenting.A new book by Iben Dissing Sandahl […]

As if breakups weren’t hard enough! Social media makes them even more complicated. What 20-something hasn’t been kept up late at night by the thought of accidentally viewing an ex’s Snapchat story? Based on my own mistakes, here are 23 steps to gracefully extricate yourself from a relationship that’s no longer IRL.1. Unfollow your ex […]

Sometimes the best dog treats aren’t edible. Every night when I walk my 6-year-old Boxer, he knows exactly what to expect once he’s unleashed. His tail wags furiously, his body wiggles, and glistening drops of saliva drip to my kitchen floor. Then it comes: a high-pitched “good boy” or a pricey, meaty treat. Typically, Beau […]

There are three things you should know if you have regular run-ins with skunks. Hydrogen peroxide. Baking soda. Dawn dish soap. You can buy expensive commercial treatments if you want to, or go the tomato juice route – you’ll spend a fortune and your home will look like the prom scene from “Carrie,” but hey. […]

In fiction, dystopias come and go, but magic and monsters are forever.During times of real-world upheaval, tales of fantasy can provide a useful escape into wonder. But can these stories also provide real, useful coping mechanisms to kids muddling through difficult times?We say, emphatically, yes.Last March, one of us (Fran) spent a day at Ridge […]