What Do Buffaloes Have to Do with Mozzarella?

We’re talking water buffaloes, not bison. (By Jason Horn)

Mapping the Mustache

CHOW’s milk taste test. (By Lessley Anderson)

10 Little-Known Cheeses

Cheeses you probably don’t know about, but should. (By Michele Foley)

A Cheese Primer

CHOW’s guide to the major cheese types. (By James Norton)

Do People Really Eat Cheese Made with Maggots?

Critters add flavor and crunch. (By Roxanne Webber)

Healthy Butter That Actually Tastes Good

This week’s mission: melted white chocolate dessert sauce and butter with olive oil. (By James Norton)

Got Goiter?

Americans are eating more fancy salt— like kosher salt, sea salt, and fleur de sel — that don’t contain iodine, and less table salt, like Morton’s, which is typically fortified with iodine. (By Laura Neilson)

10 Mail-Order Gifts for 2009

Send a boozy, chocolaty, or meaty present this holiday season. (By Roxanne Webber)

As Seen on TV

Television characters and the food they eat. (By Joe DiStefano)

To See a World in a Grain of Dry Ice

Does Chef Heston Blumenthal really find perfection? (By Sara Dickerman)

Campari's Made from Bugs

A lot of stuff you thought was vegan isn’t. (By Jason Horn)

Stinky to Mild

How to build a cheese plate. (By Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic)

Tasty Kosher Products

Kosherfest debuts chocolate liqueur and treats for doggies. (By Lynne Meredith Schreiber)

Secrets of the Perfect Salsa

They wouldn’t give us the recipe, but that didn’t stop us. (By Helena Echlin)

Soylent Green Is People!

What sci-fi movies say about future food. (By Eric Slatkin)