Instant Milk Shakes Ride Again

This week’s mission: kiddie fruit snacks by the makers of an energy bar and instant shake-and-drink milk shakes.

Bringing Bitters Back

Give your home bar a backbone with homemade bitters.

Time for School Lunch

Meals for making your mark on the blacktop.

Tea Bags for Cocktails?

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

Well-Preserved

New canning jars from Ball.

10 Exotic Sweeteners

Go beyond white sugar.

The Finest Grind

CHOW scouts the three best pepper mills.

How to Shuck an Oyster

It’s easy, just jam and twist.

Make Your Own Yogurt

It’s easy, healthy, and tangy-good.

Original Gin

Genever and gin are both flavored with juniper, but that’s where the similarities end.

Sweet Treats for Tea-Lovers

This week’s mission: hard candies that don’t suck.

Cocktail Hour

We’ll tell you our favorites as long as you don’t hold us to them.

Champagne Cocktail

The original sparkling tail —time to pull out the saucer-shaped champagne glasses!

10 Recipes Using Vodka

Have your way with vodka, from tails to dinner and dessert.

Suckling Pig for the Holidays

Go big with Chef Jose Garces’s festive menu.