Krista Simmons

Today is National Cheese Pizza Day, so we thought we'd slice you off a few of our favorite pies around town.

It took over 500 students, staff, and volunteers at the Amherst campus to create the massive 15,291 pound fruit salad, which was presented at University of Massachusetts' Welcome Back Barbeque.

Federal officials are saying that some schools are dropping out of the $11 billion National School Lunch Program, which offered reimbursement to schools for meals served and gives them access to lower-priced food, so long as it complied with their healthy meal agenda.

Rosh Hashanah begins on Wednesday and goes through Friday, and considering the heat wave you might want to leave the cooking to someone else. Here are three restaurants serving up the goods that will help you ring in a sweet new year.

A Sustainable Kitchen is launching a series of "chef walkabouts" to help fight against local food deserts. Each event will feature a local chef guiding participants through various L.A. farmers markets, and the proceeds from ticket sales will benefit a specific effort to help fight local food deserts.

The latest Frankenfood to on the scene is being introduced by Currywurst. It's no cronut, but it sounds equally as unhealthy. It's the Donut Dog.

Before heading out of town, pit master Adam Perry Lang offered up tips to help you avoid looking like a total tool during your Labor Day BBQ. Here's what to avoid and why.

Event planner and producer Tony Schubert has created events for some of the biggest names in entertainment, fashion, sports, art and media, and he's offered up these simple design tips to make your BBQ layout be carefree and fabulous, even at the last minute.

Seriously, let us have our summer. We can still wear white for another few days. Keep the pumpkins out of this.

As if the arrival of pumpkins in the grocery store wasn't enough to tick us off, now there's word of truffles coming into season. Can't we just enjoy our last weekend of summer in all it's sweaty seasonal glory before you start bombarding us with all this autumnal nonsense?

The deal went through on Tuesday. And it's a steal at $28.8 million.

A menu of beer cocktails such as Micheladas, Boilermakers and Porchcrawlers, and shot-and-beer combinations are also on tap at the new beer bar in Hollywood.