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Foodie Finds: Surfing the web

Find a cocktail, cheesy dip, spring salad & great cookbooks to please your palate.

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Invest in your foodie future

Adrianne walks you through making your own vanilla, garlic confit and garlic oil to use in future foodie goodness.

Foodie Finds: Sweet & savory muffins

Find recipes that capture the deliciousness of summer produce in muffins you can freeze till winter.

UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Woman stirring pot at stove.

Local cookbooks are a window to the past

Adrienne explores cookbooks from all sorts of Topeka-based churches, clubs and businesses 1908 – 1989.

Discover how you can help the Kansas River

The Kansas Riverkeeper talks about her work & the beauty of the world’s longest prairie-based river.