Before There Was EVOO ...

TV food personalities we miss.

Chinese Restaurants Open on Christmas

Skip the holiday entirely, or celebrate without cooking, in Florida, New York, and Los Angeles.

Way Beyond Salad Dressing

Or, how to use vinegar and citrus in your cooking to punch up flavors.

Raiding Harrison Ford's Liquor Cabinet

Table 8’s Govind Armstrong still makes time for friends (and mischief).

Summer Reading for the Food Obsessed

Books for the plane, the beach, or just curling up in bed.

The CHOW 13

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

A World of Sours

Memories of Philippine Kitchens explores the many flavors of the Philippines.

Eating While Dating

Which foods might not get you to third base.

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.

Conversation with a Cocktail Epicure

Alberta Straub, once described as “the Alice Waters of booze,” has been mixing up sublime adult beverages made with herbs, spices, and fresh fruits and vegetables for the past six years at San Francisco’s Orbit...

My Bubbe, Your Bubbe

One Jewish grandmother dispenses Hanukkah recipes and wisdom.

Make Your Own Pancetta

Skin it, tie it up, let it hang: step-by-step instructions to make your own.

Playing with Fire

CHOW tests the best kitchen torches on crème brûlée and beyond.

Second Careers in Food ... that Failed

Highway of sorrow paved with brioche.

A West Sonoma Road Trip

Tasting rooms and dining rooms in our favorite slice of Northern California wine country.