Detox Cocktails

This week’s mission: two carbonated juices with nonsensical names and ambitious career goals.

Will Salsa Conquer Processed Cheese?

This week’s mission: a sports drink aimed at the ladies, and lower-cal dishes from Taco Bell.

10 Exotic Sweeteners

Go beyond white sugar.

I'm Vegetarian but I Eat Bacon

I’m no more a carnivore than a straight woman who occasionally makes out with other girls is a lesbian.

Shelf-Stable Chicken in Kool-Aid Sauce

This week’s mission: low-cal, assemble-it-yourself convenience food and wannabe Italian dinners.

The Year in Food 2008

What we ate, what the candidates ate, what the Olympians ate.

Tea Bags for Cocktails?

This week’s mission: frozen Italian meals with a reasonably healthy twist and tea bags for your mixed drink.

Dean Karnazes's Extreme Meal Plan

Running 1,300 miles makes you very hungry.

Joyless, Sullen Brown Brick

This week’s mission: healthy candy bars and high-end Pringles.

Will It Save My Life?

CHOW reveals just how good for you superfoods really are.

The Raw Deal

As raw food goes commercial, purists cry foul.

Not So Much for Cooking

The cookbooks that didn’t quite make the cut.

Buenos Aires: Faded Elegance, High Design

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

Get to Know Bison

Your questions answered.

I dieted for years, and since I have an all-or-nothing approach to most things, I’d follow a super-restrictive diet for a few months and lose lots of weight, then go back to my earlier habits and put it all back on. About...