Barbara Sullivan

There are people who crave chocolate-chip cookies, and then there are those who crave chocolate-chip cookie dough. Now the dough lovers have a new source-chunks of cookie dough packed in...

Want to give the bride and groom a really special gift, not just another fondue pot or ice bucket? How about a portion of a down payment on a domicile?...

Chana Kaufman is Conservative Jewish and Michla Schanowitz is Orthodox, but they say they`re soul mates at heart. Especially when it comes to putting together attractive gourmet gift baskets for...

Jack Sandner wanted a clubby, warm, masculine look in most of the rooms in his house. He wanted the living room, with its 28-foot ceiling, to be evocative of ''the...

Mildred, Grace and Dorothy are about halfway through the nine-hole miniature golf course, and they have a bet going. The winner, they say, should get treated to a ''Kitchen Sink''-a...

''There`s one red-bellied woodpecker that I have long conversations with,'' says Helen Witty. ''I`ll go `chuck-chuck-chuck-chuck,` and then he looks at me and goes `chuck-chuck-chuck-chuck,` and we go back and...

Anna Karenina, move over. Harlequin romances are about to hit Moscow and St. Petersburg. Harlequin Enterprises, based in Toronto and the leading publisher of romance novels, will test the market...

Chicago Bagel Authority, 953 W. Armitage Ave., has two significant characteristics: a menu of bagel sandwiches that doesn`t stop and a young staff, almost all of whom graduated from Miami...

Walking into the Elan Gourmet in the St. James Shopping Mall, 820 Ogden Ave., Westmont, is entering a cook`s nirvana. Extra-virgin olive oils, balsamic vinegars, pine nuts, salsas, Ghirardelli chocolates,...

The antiques, gleaming wood floors, crystal and stained glass windows and overflowing abundance of things (''Victorians were great with creative clutter,'' says Bill Cecil) give the Scofield House, in Sturgeon...