Stew Leonard's has begun offering monthly cooking Webcasts starring the grocer's chefs and focusing on top-selling seasonal foods and customers' dishes from its own "Winning Recipes" cookbook.

The Webcasts, "Stew's Chef Shorts," are five-to-six minutes, the grocer said. "More than just a recipe demonstration, the value in watching these videos is in learning the chefs' tips and time savers they use in their cooking," said Stew Leonard Jr., president and c.e.o.

The inaugural Webcast has chef Chaz Fable offering a way to use leftover corn on the cob. Next month, George Llorens, who has been executive chef at Stew Leonard's flagship Norwalk, Conn. store for 15 years, will prepare a pomodoro sauce with farm-fresh tomatoes and basil. November's Webcast will feature a complete Thanksgiving dinner; and in December a holiday meal with beef tenderloin front and center will be on the menu.

"Stew's Chef Shorts" can be accessed on Stew Leonard's Web site, http://stewleonards.com/html/08chefshorts.cfm, and YouTube (www.youtube.com.) Customer feedback and suggestions on "Chef Shorts" are accepted at http://www.stewleonards.com/html/suggest_box.cfm.