This column originally appeared in the Bloomington Herald Times. Ah, the incredible bliss of truffles. Haunting and heady, they are food for the gods and sheer poetry for the mortal mouth. But if thoughts of truffles conjure images of decadent candy in your mind, of those meltingly sweet mouthfuls of chocolate and cream that make…

This column originally appeared in the Bloomington Herald Times on February 25, 2004 When Gordon Jones and Sherrie Yarling decided to leave their home in southern Florida in search of falling leaves and four authentic seasons, they did a kind of reverse Beverly Hillbillies, hitching their Cadillac to a trailer and moving to Yarling family…

This column originally appeared in the Bloomington Herald Times on February 25, 2003. Goat cheese has an attitude, an edgy savor that tells you right off: this is not your grandmother’s Velveeta. But if it’s not the tame smoothness of orange processed cheese, neither is it quite the sharpness of a well-aged Cheddar, or the…