10 Good Cheap Liquors

Tips from the experts on the best values in booze.

Cookbook Gift Guide

Give a gift that results in delicious food.

Building a Killer Wedding Bar

How to spend intelligently and offer great drinks.

Holiday Central

Recipes, menus, gifts, and entertaining tips for all your celebratory needs.

Dinner Parties on the (Ultra) Cheap

Three multicourse bashes for eight.

Suckling Pig for the Holidays

Go big with Chef Jose Garces’s festive menu.

Chronicles from a Pig Party

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights.

Spirit of Peace

Aquavit calms the stormy waters swirling between gin and vodka.

The Return of Punch

The big tail in a bowl makes a comeback.

Bring On the Bubbles

A primer on champagne.

Stain-Free Partying

Is it OK for hosts to ban red wine from pale furnishings?

How to Keep Guests Out of the Kitchen

And understand why they’re in there to begin with.

Foods You Fight

Tips for eating saucy, messy, and hard-to-handle foods.

But I Only Drank Water!

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

Dinner's Getting Cold

How to deal with chronically late guests.