Gathering the ingredients for bison meat loaf always brings me back to Big Sky Country. I may live in Chicago, but when I say I’m going home, I mean Bozeman, Montana—where my family lives, and where ...

For more than five decades, the idea of Meat Loaf of Motown has been a legend of almost mythic proportions. But it is, in fact, the truth, and was long a source of pride in the late singer's career.

There can never be another Meat Loaf. The artist, who was born in Dallas in 1947 as Marvin Lee Aday and died Thursday at the age of 74, was a singular cultural icon whose talents ranged wide but ...