Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach and writes regularly about her kitchen exploits. While recently writing a piece, I belted out some kitchen slang that set off question marks with my editors. I got ...

Let's get one thing straight: Being cloistered has never been an ambition of mine. A few years ago, in Rome, a priest tried to recruit me. "You never know whom the Lord will call," he told me. We were ...

Linoleum is now widely understood to be a common noun reffering to a certain type of floor covering. But it used to be a registered trade name, one coined by the English creator of the substance, ...