Ham on Rye, Extra Sadism

Is it OK for a restaurant to abuse its customers? (By Helena Echlin)

Terrines Made Easy

Go beyond pâté with these simple recipes.

Easter Made Easy

Freshen up the holiday menu with planked salmon.

What If You Ruin the Turkey?

Should you try to cover it up, confess, go without, or just order pizza? (By Helena Echlin)

10 Beijing Dishes

What to eat at the 2008 Olympic Games in China. (By Fuchsia Dunlop)

Michael Ruhlman's So Rational

He’s got a new book and a message to Americans: Get a cooking scale and some sharp knives. (By Roxanne Webber)

Summer 2009 Cookbook Gift Guide

Because cookbooks are easy to wrap and fun to give. (By Roxanne Webber)

Modern Florence

Beyond David and the duomo. (By Aida Mollenkamp)

Buenos Aires: Faded Elegance, High Design

Buenos Aires’s up-and-coming San Telmo neighborhood. (By Ella Lawrence)

Everything’s been coming up kugel lately. Kugel (literally “potato pudding”) is sort of a baked potato pancake. Its ingredients are simple: grated (using hand or meat grinder, never a food processor) potato... (By Jim Leff)

Try onion chile masala dosa–potato, raw onion, and kicking fresh green chile tucked into a huge, crisp, nutty, faintly caramelized crepe. (By Mark Hokoda)

Is it incredibly gauche to order Peking duck, and ask to take what’s left of the carcass home with you? It seems to depend on how the duck is served by the restaurant. ... (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Oh boy—it’s the End Times, everybody! The Christian Broadcasting Network’s “news” division reports that a D.C. restaurant has stopped taking cash. (By James Norton)

An Aussie newspaper gets a grip on restaurant handles. (By Kara Zuaro)

Tirupathi Bhimas is the place for Andhra. (By M.G. Shea)