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A Denny's waitress delivers breakfast to customers in Emeryville, Calif. The tipped minimum wage has been stuck at $2.13 since 1991.

After 23 Years, Your Waiter Is Ready For A Raise

The tipped minimum wage has been stuck at $2.13 an hour since 1991. In states where servers make more than the federal minimum wage, restaurants haven't been hurting.

All You Need To Know For Holiday Meals

If the rain has kept you from food shopping and planning for the holidays, don't worry. We've got Chef Bernard Guillas in studio to talk about last minute recipes, stress-free holiday dinners, and New Year's cocktails.

Tristram Stuart, founder of Feeding the 5000, is helping to organize several disco soup events across Europe for World Food Day. Stuart is shown here in New York, where he attended the first U.S.-based disco soup event in September.

Here's A Reason To Love Disco Again: Stopping Food Waste

Wednesday is World Food Day, an occasion food activists like to use to call attention to world hunger. With 842 million chronically undernourished people on Earth, it's a problem that hasn't gone away.

Doug Rouch wants to take wholesome food that grocers have to throw away and cook and sell it as low-cost, prepared meals.

Trader Joe's Ex-President To Turn Expired Food Into Cheap Meals

Here's some food for thought: One-third of the world's food goes to waste every year. In the U.S., about 40 percent of our food gets thrown out. It's happening on the farm, at the grocery store and in our own homes.

The eighth and ninth graders at a recent Unification Leader Camp in Jeju, South Korea, answer questions about their knowledge of their neighbors to the North.

Yes, There's A Summer Camp Dedicated To Learning About North Korea

On a beach resort in southern South Korea, the government sponsors camps each year where kids as young as 11 are taught about North Koreans, to prepare for a peaceful "reunification" — one day.

Our author Chhavi Sachdev (front row, right), with her dad, mom and brother. Dad is not a fan of Father's Day.

Father's Day Is Now A Thing In India — But My Dad Is Not A Fan

Growing up in India, I never had to worry about Father's Day. But now I do. Would dad like a booze flask with a mustache decal?

New Clinic For Developmentally Delayed Children Opens In Logan Heights

A new community clinic designed to treat developmentally delayed children is open for business in Logan Heights. The clinic offers a wide array of services, regardless of a family's ability to pay.

In Salt Lake City, Utah, local appraiser Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books is inspired when he comes face to face with the owner of a first edition volume of "The Pearl of Great Price," the third book of Mormon scripture, published in 1851, after the death of Joseph Smith. Passed down in the owner's family, the book still bears the exceedingly rare original front and rear wrappers; Sanders estimates it would bring $45,000 - $55,000 at retail.

Antiques Roadshow: Salt Lake City, Utah - Part Two

Airs Monday, September 24, 2012 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

In Salt Lake City, Utah, this direct descendant of a prominent 19th-century Mormon family proudly displays two rare pieces of Utah history passed down from his great-grandfather: a Mormon textile advertisement for military supplies and Brigham Young's Invasion Proclamation of 1857. Both documents recall a time of hostilities between the Mormons and the U.S. government during the administration of President James Buchanan. The impeccable provenance and rarity of these pieces lead appraiser Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books to estimate a market value of $10,000 to $15,000 for the pair.

Antiques Roadshow: Salt Lake City, Utah - Part Three

Airs Monday, October 17, 2011 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

In this July 23, 2008, photo, Egyptian boys watch passing girls on the bank of the Nile in Cairo.

Digging Into Egypt's Culture Of Harassment

While mob violence like the attack on CBS' Lara Logan is not the norm, sexual harassment in Cairo is an everyday occurrence — and most women have their own personal stories to tell. But Egyptian women hope the revolution will change all that.

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