Krista Simmons

Here are two sweet scoops of news to brighten up your day

Pasadena Happy Hour Week started on Monday and goes thru next Friday. During the festivities, Old Pasadena's restaurants, bars and lounges are offering extended food and drink specials.

School cafeterias are now practicing vegetarian meals on Monday. Of course, the kids could pack their own lunches, but it's a start.

The restaurant will focus on low-country classics. From our experience, that means things like gumbo, shrimp and grits and seafood boils. Oh, and bourbon. Lots of bourbon.

A bartender from the Thirsty Crow shares some tricks on how to turn the green fairy into a magical, whimsical tipple.

Alana, displaying her saleswoman skills, made a deal with shoppers that if they purchase five boxes of cookies from the troop she would pose for a picture with them.

In the age of fast food and even faster technology, where families so rarely sit down for a meal without digital distractions, these elements of education are even more important to becoming thriving adult in the professional world.

Filmmakers address the issue of childhood hunger in the United States, exploring food policy and the lives it impacts through their documentary. Here's a video interview about the project.

Joining the ranks of California-based 800 Degrees and PizzaRev, Blaze hopes that their quick fired pizzas can deliver the same profitability that other quick serve concepts like Chipotle has.

The weekend is so close you can practically taste it. Here are the edible events going on in the next few days to keep you occupied -- and sated, for that matter.

Honey Boo Boo started selling the coveted cookies on her Facebook page for a friend, and she ended up pushing over 400 boxes. That was until the higher-ups at the Girl Scouts caught wind of it.

The United States Department of Agriculture is on track to open the country's first horse slaughter plant in six years. The last horse processing plant was shuttered in 2007 after Congress approved a bill that forbid the USDA from using any of its funds to inspect horse meat. Since then, horses that were raised for human consumption were shipped off to be slaughtered in Canada or Mexico, where inspection laws aren't as stringent.