Fancy Tonic Water Not Worth the Fancy Price

This week’s mission: fancy-pants imported tonic water and chips made from slow-baked fruit.

How to Grow Herbs Indoors

Easy? Maybe not. Rewarding? Hell yeah.

10 Little-Known Cheeses

Cheeses you probably don’t know about, but should.

Deck the Halls with Beer

Holiday brews cheer the American beer market.

Worth the Search

Apricots from Turkey, beef from Japan — are the harder-to-track-down, usually imported ingredients any better than the more widely available versions?

Squanto Never Ate Popcorn

Did the Pilgrims really eat popcorn? CHOW investigates Thanksgiving dinner.

The Business of Fun

Marco Pierre White is sometimes a slave, sometimes a devil.

10 Exotic Sweeteners

Go beyond white sugar.

Your Beer Smells Like Goat

Beer geeks revel in weird, funky wild ales.

10 Food-Related Charities

Put your money toward gifts that benefit good causes.

You Are What You Don't Eat

Ten ways to label you and your food.

Clay Potatoes and Olive Pit Fuel

Observations from Madrid Fusión 2008.

The CHOW 13

Our first annual awards, presenting a baker’s dozen of provocateurs, trendsetters, and rabble-rousers.

From Scarface to Key Lime Pie

A culinary tour of seedy-but-cool Red Hook, Brooklyn

A West Sonoma Road Trip

Tasting rooms and dining rooms in our favorite slice of Northern California wine country.