Hold the Cream of Mushroom Soup

From Bismarck to St. Paul to Madison, new high-end restaurants are embracing such local cuisine as fried walleye and wild-rice porridge. Call it the birth of northwoods chic.

The Year in Food 2007

Vegansexuals, tainted dog food, greenwashing, and more.

The Spice That Binds

A vanilla primer.

Who Makes Trader Joe's Food?

A taste test to try to figure out who is behind Trader Joe’s food.

The CHOW 13

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

Destination: Denver on the Cheap

Kingpin food on a volunteer budget at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Mole in the Mountains

A gastronomic adventure in Xalapa, Mexico.

The Year in Food 2008

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

Destination: Twin Cities Crawl

Well fed and hung over at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Fried Ipswich Clams

I’ve never done this, but would like to try. Can you tell me what liquor you used and if you also added sugar. Also, how long do they keep in the refrigerator and how did you use them? Thank you!

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The menu went out on sunday. I don’t see it on the website, so i’ll go ahead and post it when i get home. I’m very disappointed in it, i’m sad to say. They follow through with the liquor-in-everything...

If you’re a whiskey fan in general, there are some inexpensive curiosities to be had in the South that you just can’t get up North, such as corn whiskey and local varieties of unaged corn liquor. Try J.W. Corn or...

So I have this odd habit of buying old liquor from people. Strangely, I get a lot of it at garage sales and through my mother’s network of older friends and I have been noticing some interesting stuff – even basic...