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Articles by Ann Heller
Double standard for the Delta High School rifle team?
To the editor: As the aunt of students on the Delta Junction High School rifle team, I feel compelled to speak up about a decision that is directly affecting these kids. Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading. We have used your information to see if you have a subscription with us, but did not find one. Please use the button below to verify an existing account or to purchase a new subscription.
WINNER: This cookie recipe beat out nearly 400 others in the first Dayton Daily News holiday baking contest
The cookie contest became an annual tradition. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, however, the newspaper did not hold a holiday cookie contest this year. But cookie recipes are timeless, so we dug into our archives to find the winner of the very first baking contest, 30 years ago. The story also contained recipes for five other cookies that were judged to be close runners-up to the winner among the nearly 400 entries.
THROWBACK: Read what Ann Heller wrote about Meadowlark in her 2004 restaurant review
Editor’s note: Here’s a Throwback Thursday offering from our archives: the full restaurant review that former Dayton Daily News food editor and restaurant reviewer Ann Heller wrote about Meadowlark shortly after it opened in the fall of 2004. Now located on Far Hills Avenue in Washington Twp., Meadowlark reopened Tuesday after a two-week temporary closure due to an employee’s positive COVID-19 test and subsequent quarantine requirements.
FLASHBACK: Ann Heller’s restaurant review from 1995 of then-new Bravo Italian Kitchen
Note: this story was published in the Dayton Daily News on Dec. 22, 1995 and was written by former food editor and restaurant critic Ann Heller. ************* SOUTH SUBURBAN HOT SPOT: CROWDS FILLING OVERSIZED BRAVO By Ann Heller, Dayton Daily News restaurant critic "PeetsZAAHHA" a voice calls out, sounding like some medieval street vendor hawking his wares.
FLASHBACK: Here are ‘Dayton’s 10 Best Restaurants’ in 1990 — and what happened to the 6 that died
The headline on former Dayton Daily News restaurant critic Ann Heller’s story on Oct. 26, 1990 proved to be both accurate and prescient: “Change is a constant among Dayton’s Top 10 restaurants.” Six of the 10 eateries that made Ann’s “Top 10” list are, sadly, no longer with us. But hey, the glass is (almost) half full, right?
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