When a few hounds got together recently for a taste-off of tamales from across L.A., best in show was Mama’s Hot Tamales’ black mole tamale.

To its devotees, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory’s Zen Butter is sweet enlightenment by the scoop.

A small Pennsylvania town is being held emotionally hostage by roving gangs of soft-drink-slinging food terrorists.

Saveur takes its readers to the far fringes of the Russian Far East in its September issue.

Gordon Ramsay has a confession to make: He creams for Whoppers.

Favorite ways hounds like to gussy them up, from wasabi to fresh herbs to bacon.

A lovely platter of choice Berkeley Cheeseboard Collective advice.

Royal fever hits the superorganic celebs, and Prince Charles gets a new American BFF.

Is it Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious at work that has so many publications trotting out articles on grilled cheese this week?

Japanese staples and seasonings transformed into elegantly wrought sweets.

In addition to the universal curative brothy chicken soup, Chowhounds offer a few simple go-to soup recipes that set them right when they’re feeling under the weather.

James Beard nominees are announced; start your handicapping now!

There is a store in San Pablo that sells holy pupusas. It started with somebody selling pupusas out of their home on a Sunday. Now it’s a semi-restaurant on Sundays at lunch.

A Venezuelan chef is hoping to get diners interested in the cuisine of the isolated tribes of the southern rain forests. Some of their traditional delicacies: smoked monkey, Bachaco ants, spiders, and termites.

Alfred Rossino, proprietor of Alfred’s Tomato Pie, turns out beautiful thin-crust pizzas by hand, all the while singing along to recordings of Sinatra, opera, or doowop.