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One Mom's "Pinch of Cumin"

By Elizabeth Maria Naranjo

Feb 28, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. From the moment her child is conceived, a mother's love flows in the form of food. In the womb, it...

Of Guitars, Metaphors, and Chocolate Haupia Pie

By Kathy West

Feb 27, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. He had a guitar and too many pretty metaphors, and he loved chocolate haupia pie. He also loved me --...

Beer Stew and Gluten-Free Love

By Judith Nichols

Feb 26, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. When I met my husband, Tom, in grad school in Tucson, he was cooking on a two-burner hotplate in his...

The Flavor of Death

By Eric Schaefer

Feb 25, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. Nearly 10 years ago, my wife and I had our second date at Hiro Sushi, an authentic Japanese restaurant in...

Cynthia Clark Harvey Presents "Coq Au Doodle I Do"

By Cynthia Clark Harvey

Feb 22, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Today, a graphic story from Cynthia Clark Harvey. Enjoy. Follow Chow Bella on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest...

Kim Porter Loves a Relish Tray

By Kim Porter

Feb 21, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. My sister approaches me with her baby on her hip, "Me and the kids have to go," she whispers, "I...

Sativa Peterson and The Great Kitchen

By Sativa Peterson

Feb 20, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. What a great kitchen. I'm browsing one of those design websites, where you can see photos taken inside a couple's...

Deborah Sussman's Care Package

By Deborah H. Sussman

Feb 19, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. In the 1940s, my father and his parents spent two long years imprisoned in concentration camps in Holland and Germany,...

Robrt Pela's Heartwarming Valentine Tale: "If It's Friday, This Must Be the Body of Christ"

By Robrt L. Pela

Feb 18, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. I know a 12-year-old who eats nothing but peanut butter and chicken fingers. Three meals a day. No kidding. She...

Katie Johnson's Chicken-Flavored Valentine

By Katie Johnson

Feb 15, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. "It smells good, right?" I ladled a small portion of the chicken fettuccine alfredo out of the pan and handed...

Julie Peterson on Love, Loss, What She Wore -- and What She Ate

By Julie Peterson

Feb 14, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. In a decent childhood, someone feeds you routinely, from the very first day. How can there not be at least...

Laurie Notaro's Dish of Death

By Laurie Notaro

Feb 13, 2013

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. I place the bowl of spaghetti on the table directly in front of my husband. Then I stand there for...

Laurie Notaro and Others Tell Stories of Food and Love at Crescent Ballroom Feb. 12

By Amy Silverman

Jan 29, 2013

What does spaghetti have to do with love? Only Laurie Notaro knows, and she's not telling -- not til Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. when Chow Bella presents Candy Hearts, our second public reading at Crescent Ballroom in downtown Phoenix. See also: - Laurie Notaro's Eight Food(ie) Terms Past...

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