Chef moved family to U.S. for 'better life'
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After serving in the German Navy in World War II and struggling in the decade that followed, chef Herbert Diersch saw an opportunity in the United States and a better life for his wife and children.
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When Delmy Diaz decided to buy a home, she first looked in Columbia Heights. That's where her friends and relatives and favorite stores were.
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PEORIA, Ill. -- The 37-year-old computer science student was racing against a deadline. Just one day after picking up his visa from the U.S. Embassy in Qatar, he boarded a plane with his wife and five small children. The family flew to Chicago, caught a night's sleep at an airport hotel, then...
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By THERESA CURRY  By Theresa curry  Correspondent  WHEN IT WAS time for supper in her Brooklyn neighborhood, it wasn't unusual to find teenager Linda Morrissey in the kitchen, getting a start on the evening meal for the family of six.
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The Canadian actor has become a US citizen.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Michael Schulson, a U.S. chef and television personality, honed his culinary skills at a young age watching his grandmother in the kitchen and is all in favor of using salt to bring the flavors out of food.
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By helping children abroad, an American couple sought to create a legacy for their son, who died of a heart ailment.
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GUYANCOURT, France  - It was hardly a conventional  move for a gastronomic French chef with a resume studded with  Michelin restaurant stars.
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Parents and kids traditionally tussle over clothes, hairstyles and curfews. But it's the food struggles fought at the family dinner table that can sometimes linger decades into adulthood.
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The family of Mark Thatcher, who was arrested in South Africa last week on suspicion of financing a coup attempt in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, have quit his Cape Town home bound for the United States.
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Many immigrants come to the United States for the good life. But a new study suggests that living well can carry a cost. Over the years, researchers report, immigrants tend to become just
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For Italian chef Giada De Laurentiis, being in the kitchen or getting out for a weekend getaway are all about the same thing -- enjoying the pleasures of food.
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A chef who took over her family's seafood restaurant after the death of her father became the fourth woman to win the highest accolade from France's Michelin Guide, the bible of gastronomy.
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During his 30 years in Britain, French chef Raymond Blanc has helped to transform British attitudes towards gastronomy, with cooking inspired by his rich continental European heritage.
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Far from the mountain where he skied to Olympic fame, Toby Dawson found his family. More than two decades after he was lost in a South Korean market and eventually adopted in the United States, Dawson was reunited with his father Wednesday.
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A former U.S. army sergeant who deserted to North Korea nearly four decades ago left a U.S. military base near Tokyo on Tuesday for a new life with his family in his Japanese wife's home town.
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Muhammad Ismail, 45, and his son, Jaber, 19, relatives of a man convicted of supporting terrorists, returned to the United States.