Garden Harvest Toasted Chips and Hemp Bliss Organic Hempmilk

This week’s mission: Quasi-healthy chips containing fruit, and nondairy “milk” that tastes like rancid nuts.

CHOW's Intense Brownies

Chewy, cakey, fudgy – a recipe for chocoholics.

Texas Queso Dip

Use it to top nachos or just as a dip for tortilla chips. This recipe combines two cheeses, onions, and green chiles for a Tex-Mex winner.

Booze-Flavored Munchies

This week’s mission: potato chips flavored like beer and Bloody Marys, and fancier M&M’s.

Italian Hops, Not Grapes

Italy has some beer for you to drink.

Who Makes Trader Joe's Food?

A taste test to try to figure out who is behind Trader Joe’s food.

Bagel Felony

This week’s mission: Healthier rice/potato chips and cream cheese–filled bagel cylinders.

Super Bowl for a Crowd

Tex-Mex-style game-day grub.

Maps and Mash

Google maps plus food equals a cartographic cornucopia.

But I Only Drank Water!

If you don’t order as much, do you have to split the bill?

You Want Fries on That?

Hold the ketchup and try one of these twists on the old familiar french fry.

College Cooks Gone Wild!

Crème brûlée in the microwave and other desperate dorm-room tricks.

Hold the Cream of Mushroom Soup

From Bismarck to St. Paul to Madison, new high-end restaurants are embracing such local cuisine as fried walleye and wild-rice porridge. Call it the birth of northwoods chic.

Not Invited Back

Are you obliged to reciprocate dinner party invitations?

10 Super Bowl Party Shortcuts

Less time cooking means more time for beer and TV.