College Cooks Gone Wild!

Crème brûlée in the microwave and other desperate dorm-room tricks. (By Margot Kaminski)

Sex, Drugs, and Béchamel

A new cookbook features recipes from indie rockers. (By Sara Bir)

Chronicles from a Pig Party

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights. (By Kate Ramos)

A West Sonoma Road Trip

Tasting rooms and dining rooms in our favorite slice of Northern California wine country. (By Lessley Anderson)

Holiday Central

Recipes, menus, gifts, and entertaining tips for all your celebratory needs.

The May edition of Fine Cooking has a stellar biscuit recipe, proving the magazine’s worth. (By James Norton)

Cheesesteak on a Tiny Waffle

The Brooklyn Cheese Experiment. (By Lessley Anderson)

It’s lights out for Night and Day. The Park Slope restaurant and performance venue, which survived a rocky start and eventually won over hounds with hearty, comforting American chow, has closed its doors. (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Perfect with soups and stews. (By Caitlin McGrath)

Self-rising flour (all-purpose flour with salt and baking powder mixed in) is fairly rare outside the South, and most American cookbooks don’t include recipes calling for it. (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Chowhounds don’t exactly rough it when they eat outdoors. (By Sarah Perry)

Bring your friends and get ready for a Central Asian feast at Uzbekistan. (By Cicely Wedgeworth)

Three places that do deep-dish pies right. (By Cicely Wedgeworth)

I intend to finish off this leg of the tour with several days in Montreal, one of the world’s best food cities. Here’s what I wrote about Montreal a few years ago … (By Jim Leff)