Knishes and pasta | Made on Long Island

Long Islanders love their carbs. That is good news for both a local pasta maker and a family-run knish company. The recipes are making these companies world famous.

Futuristic crime scene technology is here now

When a homemade pressure-cooker bomb exploded in a dumpster in the Chelsea section of Manhattan in mid-September, police officers, FBI agents, and bomb techs isolated the crime scene, interviewed witnesses, and collected and cataloged evidence to send to labs for analysis in hopes all that might lead them to the person who constructed and planted the device.

Recipe: Hummus with coffee-braised brisket

Chef Michael Solomonov of Dizengoff NYC in the Chelsea Market prepared hummus with coffee-braised brisket in the Good Day Cafe. Happy Roshashanah!

Nounós Creamery | Made on Long Island

When they couldn't find traditional Greek yogurt in America, Steven Ioannou and John Belesis decided to make their own using their family's recipe. The two founded Nounós Creamery. How did they come up with the name? "Nounós" is Greek for "godfather," and Belesis is Ioannou's godfather.

The Big Idea: Fighting superbugs

Antibiotics -- one of the most profound medical breakthroughs of the 20th Century -- don't work as well as they once did. 

Garlic fried chicken recipe

Garlic fried chicken by the Bite of Hong Kong was served up in the Good Day Cafe.

GSE Dynamics | Made on Long Island

From WWII to the moon, Long Island historically is the home of dozens of military contractors like Fairchild Republic and Grumman. Today that tradition still exists.

Good Day Cafe: Cellar 335

Executive Chef Jamie Knott and Mixologist Guillermo Bravo of Cellar 335 in Jersey City shared recipes for chilled noodles and smoldering bastard cocktail.

Finding Faith: Mother Teresa's legacy in New York

Mother Teresa was born in 1910. She died September 1997 at the age of 87. Born in Albania, she joined a religious order of Irish Catholic nuns. Later she would ask permission from the pope to found her own her order, the Missionaries of Charity. Her sisters are still doing her work around the world and in Harlem, Greenwich Village, Brooklyn and the South Bronx.

The Big Idea: Treating cancer with immunotherapy

Cancer specialists have discovered a new way to activate the body's immune system. Immunotherapy may finally be the weapon needed to conquer one of medicines' fiercest foes.

Denino's Pizzeria and Tavern | The Dish

New York City has some of the best pizza in the world. For decades this has been one of the most popular spots. Denino's is a New York City pizza institution, feeding hungry Staten Islanders for almost a hundred years. Carlo Denino opened the spot in the early 1920s, and it's been buzzing ever since.