The New Kitchen Staples

Your pantry is bare unless these 10 items sit on its shelves. They’ve achieved post-food-fad status.

Dinner Parties on the (Ultra) Cheap

Three multicourse bashes for eight.

How to Grow Herbs Indoors

Easy? Maybe not. Rewarding? Hell yeah.

Grow Your Own Sprouts

Garden without any dirt.

Secrets of the Perfect Salsa

They wouldn’t give us the recipe, but that didn’t stop us.

Kitchen Confessional

Reading Nigel Slater’s diaries.

Make Your Own Tofu

A homemade version of the vegetarian centerpiece.

Vietnamese Building Blocks

Stepping "Into the Vietnamese Kitchen."

The Strategic Wedding Registry

CHOW’s guide to creating a wedding gift registry you’ll love.

Masters of the Bean

Today’s coffee connoisseurs want to be on a first-name basis with their roaster. They want to know not only which country the beans came from but which region, or even which “estate.” They obsess over freshness and brew time and...

Meat at Your Door

Bypass the supermarket and buy it direct.

Wedding Cake Tips

Get the most for your money.

Mushrooms Will Save the World

And other findings from Taste^3^ 2007.

Buenos Aires: Faded Elegance, High Design

Buenos Aires’s up-and-coming San Telmo neighborhood.

Future on Ice

Defrosting the history of the fridge.