Film Feast

The nominees for best food scene in a movie are ...

Save Your Dollars

For many kitchen items, cheaper is better.

Something More Than Crappy Pilsner

While there is no brand of American pilsner distributed nationally, several excellent examples have popped up on the micro and regional levels.

Our Favorite Butchers

We go for the real meat, the sustainably farmed, humanely raised and slaughtered, heritage, no-hormone, quality product, and for guys behind the counter knowledgeable enough to tell us where the meat came from and how to cook it.

The Taste of an Oyster

Plus a dozen oysters you should know.

I have mistreated my simple but sturdy steel (I think) wok, made in China, and it now bears signs of inadequate tempering, rust from failure to oil after using it to steam fish, black bits stuck to the interior surface, etc. Is...

La Nouvelle Justine? Sorry, I know that isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but I couldn’t resist. Not quite old-school, but a definite yes on the waiter abuse front. ;)

I got a mailer-daemon bounce-back when using this address to try to report that there is spam in the comments on the Shockingly Tasty Fruitcakes story on Chow.

Steven Shaw makes the case for reform in the food delivery business in New York, citing consumers as the problem: "Consumers are largely to blame for this state of affairs. WE deman rock-bottompprices. Plenty of New Yorkers are...

I had the most surreal experience of all my journeys to Perisan restaurants this week when I decided to try out Kabob House Halal in Santa Clara. As I understand it, the owners are from Iraq, and they serve food from there, Iran,...

Vegan hatred again, this time in Scotland.

It’s sad when supermarkets treat vegetables with disrespect.

A new video unveils some of the key edible supporting players in your favorite violent video game.

Monosodium glutamate isn’t evil, it’s just a lazy way of adding umami flavor to a dish.

With beer sales dropping, Germans are reportedly more sober now than ever before.