Best Bets, June 4-10: La Merienda, Cooking for Solutions, Monterey Wine Festival
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Saturday’s festive event includes a barbecue cooked and served by local dignitaries, mariachi music, dancers, a procession and cake – a 75-pound cake, decorated with fresh roses.

Chimps Are Capable Of Cooking, Researchers Say
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Once researchers found chimps like cooked food in one experiment, they introduced different “cooking” devices in another experiment.

Eat Local Challenge events, expeditions, cooking demos and more
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Two foraging expeditions will be hosted in New Orleans City Park and Audubon Park. On June 7, Audubon Institute chief entomologist Zack Lemann will lead a cooking demonstration using dragonflies and grasshoppers caught in the Manchac Wildlife Area.

Mayor Ollie Tyler will cook at Gentlemen’s Cooking Classic
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Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler has decided to spend some time in the kitchen. She is going to put on an apron and cook for Gentleman’s Cooking Classic. So are Caddo Sheriff Steve Prator, state Sen. Greg Tarver, former Mayor Keith Hightower, Bishop Larry …

Cooking Sabra-Style in Brooklyn
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Israeli native Einat Admony , 44, is a chef and restaurateur, who with her husband Stefan Nafziger, 39, owns and manages some of New York City’s most popular eateries.

Cooking Up Change school lunch competition gives students control of healthy …
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Teenagers across the country are taking control of their school lunches, and high schoolers from seven states will travel to the nation’s capital Monday to create healthier cafeterias in the 2015 Cooking Up Change competition. For the first time, D.C …

Junk Food Flip on the Cooking Channel
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The Cooking Channel’s Junk Food Flip follows Bobby Deen and Nikki Dinki as they recreate some of America’s delicious dishes into healthier alternatives.

Cooking, nutrition program gives ‘Taste of African Heritage’
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“Philadelphia is passionate about promoting good health with its citizens and was the perfect choice to house our first permanent homes for A Taste of African Heritage cooking classes,” said Sara Baer-Sinnott, president, Oldways. “The classes showcase …

‘Top Chef Ape Edition’? Chimps may have mental capacity to cook
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Cooking seems like one of those things that sets us apart from our evolutionary cousins. However, chimpanzees may prefer a home-cooked meal to one that came straight off the tree, according to a new study, and may even be able to learn to cook for …

Cooking with Heart Kitchen promotes healthy eating
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“I started cooking about the age of 5,” Small said. “My mom would get the skillet hot and let me beat the egg and put it in the pan.