This weekend, Chandler husband-and-wife team Chad and Erin Romanoff celebrate the one-year anniversary of their vintage silver food truck — The Uprooted Kitchen. Appearing weekly at Gilbert Farmers Market and Food Truck Friday in Phoenix, the Romanoff’s “restaurant on wheels” is a true gem found right in our own backyard.

Twice a year, two distinct cultural groups — foodies and penny pinchers — meet on common ground, or more accurately, at local restaurants.

Lo-Lo's famous Phoenix restaurant is the inspiration behind a delicious potato chip, and you can help put those chips in stores around the country.

Local chefs featured on the Eight, Arizona PBS show “Check, Please! Arizona” gather at the inaugural Check, Please! Arizona Festival, where fans and foodies can sample some of the Valley’s best restaurant fare and audition for upcoming episodes of the show. Cuisine from at least 36 of the independent restaurants – from five-star dining establishments to tucked-away cafes – previously featured on the show will be offered.  Among event highlights are cooking demonstrations, panel discussions and the chance to audition in front of cameras.

SAN FRANCISCO — What happens when you ask a group of food world luminaries to come up with their picks for Best Food Scene in a movie?

It's that time of year. The nights are long, the mornings are chilly. Maybe you're sniffling and sneezing, coughing and clammy and ready to be done with your all-too-common cold.

My mouth is watering, and there’s not a thing I can do about it.

Anybody can giftwrap a matching apron and oven mitts. But if you really want to impress the foodie in your life, give the gift of kitchen tech.

While Cheryl Standage, of Mesa, was building her career as a successful vice-president with World Savings and Wachovia, her passion for baking delectable desserts was being pushed to the back burner.

TASTE. Chandler’s Culinary Festival returns Oct. 6 with expanded local restaurant offerings and new evening hours.

MEXICO CITY — Christopher Kostow foraged in the open stalls of the Mercado San Juan, the most gourmet of Mexico City's crumbling, pungent public markets, as vendors hawked: "This way, this way! What can we offer you?"

PUEBLO, Colo. - In some respects, Pueblo is like a pint-sized Rust Belt city. It's a steel town that was once more prominent than it is today with strong ties to the Old World -- something that's still obvious when you visit Pueblo's Italian and Slovenian bakeries and markets.

This popular annual event gives Valley foodies the chance to taste the latest and greatest from local chefs, take cooking classes from the same, and enjoy the best brews and cocktails Phoenix has to offer. Tickets include all food and alcohol samplings.

With summer temperatures sizzling right now, many of us like to get away to the high country for a day or two. Prescott is my favorite place to cool off, and, being a foodie, I enjoy finding places where I can try out different ingredients or purchase kitchen stuff.

The parade of retro treats marches on. And this summer it seems the foodie hipster scene has declared shaved ice is the hot “new” old way to stay — and be — cool.

When I get a hankering for Mexican food, a handful of favorite restaurants around the Valley usually do the trick, among them Barrio Cafe in Phoenix and America’s Taco Shop in Tempe. But occasionally, a craving so particular hits that no local restaurant — save for maybe Casa Reynoso in Tempe — can satisfy it.

What’s your favorite Arizona restaurant? Do you reward yourself by eating there after a hike? Will you drive 100 miles just for its desserts? Does your family rendezvous there from across the state? As “Check, Please! Arizona” prepares to shoot its third season, the Emmy Award-winning program is expanding its repertoire to include restaurants beyond the Phoenix area.

What’s your favorite Arizona restaurant? Do you reward yourself by eating there after a hike? Will you drive 100 miles just for its desserts? Does your family rendezvous there from across the state? As “Check, Please! Arizona” prepares to shoot its third season, the Emmy Award-winning program is expanding its repertoire to include restaurants beyond the Phoenix area.

Fresh air? Check. Lovely place to sit? Check. Delicious food, live music, cold beverages and amusements to while away the afternoon? Checkity-check-check-check.

After 15 years in business, Four Peaks Brewing Company is celebrating with a grand-scale party.

AZ Wine and Dine: Mingle with top restaurateurs, hotel executives and local foodies for an evening of wine and culinary samples. Live music from the Shining Star Band and a silent auction of vacation packages, dinners, sports and music memorabilia balance the 21-and-older event.

In just over two years since it’s been open Secreto has changed management three times. Now, bringing the experience of Caffe Boa to Chandler Boulevard, newly appointed general manager Jamie Santoro hopes the third time is a charm.

Foodies probably don’t like to admit it, but nearly everyone loves a good casserole.

Foodies probably don’t like to admit it, but nearly everyone loves a good casserole.