Serve Wine, Make Wine

Sommeliers leap from restaurant floor to vineyard.

White-Collar Moonshine

Urbanites flout federal law with their new favorite hobby: home distilling.

Slow Food Nation's Victory Garden

Fight bad food policy by growing your own.

New Year's, Japanese Style

Trade in your champagne and hors d’oeuvres for sake and mochi.

Mole in the Mountains

A gastronomic adventure in Xalapa, Mexico.

His Knife Has Got Your Back

Butchers can do all kinds of things for you— just ask.

I'll Pay You to Kill My Steer

Free-range and grass-fed animals are big with consumers. So why won’t most American slaughterhouses kill them?

See Recipe on Back

Concoctions cribbed off the back of a box that are good enough to pass as your own.

Truck-Side Dining

The how, why, and where of high-end food trucks.

Modern Florence

Beyond David and the duomo.

Counter Measures

Ten ways to green your kitchen.

Recession-Proof Wines

You can still drink well on a budget.

10 Ways to Smuggle Booze into Events

Crazy devices and contraptions.

R.I.P. Didier Dagueneau

Reflections on a great winemaker.

The CHOW 13

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