Formative summers at the family farm helped set Wilbur Cox Jr. on his culinary path. But it was the women in his life who had the most profound effect on his career.

Nostalgia has a funny way of creeping up on us at times when we're least expecting it.

Good morning, companions at the kitchen table.

For me, one of the best things about going to IKEA has always been its Swedish food market.

And now come the regrets.

DEAR ABBY: My fiance, "Peter," has a number of female friends I'm not comfortable with, primarily because they are women he had interest in before we started dating.

The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department inspects restaurants twice a year and grades the businesses on a 100-point scale.

Singer and music producer Pharrell Williams is challenging corporate America to "do more" by supporting entrepreneurs of color and adopting economic equity measures.

Alcenia's restaurant owner BJ Chester-Tamayo is appearing on TV again, but this time it's not for her famous Southern cooking.

DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend, "Dyanne," and I recently had a baby conceived not long after we started dating.

The Broadway production of "Jersey Boys" schedule for Jan. 18-20 at Memorial Auditorium has been rescheduled for July 29-30, according to Tivoli Foundation Executive Director Nick Wilkinson.

DEAR ABBY: Three weeks after I met my love, he proposed. We were married four months later. We hadn't discussed finances, but he did know my income was higher than his.

Ralph Emery, who became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a half-century in both radio and television, died Saturday, his family said. He was 88.

Alec Baldwin has surrendered his cellphone to authorities as part of the investigation into a fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set last fall, a law enforcement official said.

The death of Betty White on Dec. 31 at age 99 left fans bereft but marveling at her impeccable timing. Dying 17 days shy of her 100th birthday was the ultimate way to leave her audience wanting more.

Being a Betty White fan might be the easiest thing in the world to do. Who wasn't charmed by her wit and comic timing, but more importantly by her down-to-earth approachable personality?

Just when I was getting used to actual reality, along comes virtual reality.

Have you ever felt like you've cared so much you just can't anymore? Like you're exhausted from taking care of others? Even if you've never heard of compassion fatigue, you may be familiar with what it is.

"Don't forget, honey, at some point the girls need new doors on the vanity under the sink in their bathroom."

A list of upcoming events in the Chattanooga region.

"It is the glory of God to conceal a matter," writes the author of Proverbs, "but the glory of kings is to search things out." The biblical account of reality — that God created a world that was knowable and his image-bearers to be knowers —powerfully explains the human drive to learn and investigate the world around us. It also justifies the utilization of general revelation as we pursue knowledge of the created order through various branches of science.

"There is a human prejudice in favor of animals," a South Carolina botanist tells author Georgann Eubanks midway through "Saving the Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction." "People are much more interested in the big, brown-eyed Florida panther than, say, Furbish's lousewort."

I realize that my thoughts are not that important, but what God has to say contains the power to change what man cannot change. May we choose faith over fear and allow our hope to be larger than our doubt!