MANKATO, Minn. - Like a spoon-toting Lady Liberty, for 50 years the Happy Chef has welcomed visitors to Mankato. For the last 20 - silently. But no more. Last Friday, the kitschy 38-foot statue got ...

GLOUCESTER — They stepped past cars parked bumper-to-bumper along the shoulder of a narrow backroad with their arms filled with white chef coats, aprons, and boxes overflowing with cookbooks and ...