Drinking While Pregnant

Should you go on the wagon in solidarity with your pregnant spouse? (By Helena Echlin)

Drinking and Eating at Vancouver Izakayas

A raucous crawl through Japanese small-plates-and-beer joints. (By Lessley Anderson)

Does Drinking Ice Water Burn Calories?

Hydration, maybe; weight loss, doubtful. (By Roxanne Webber)

Celebrity Booze

Drink what famous people are drinking, and making. (By Roxanne Webber)

Will Salsa Conquer Processed Cheese?

This week’s mission: a sports drink aimed at the ladies, and lower-cal dishes from Taco Bell. (By James Norton)

Sensitive New Age Cocktails

Does a happy bartender make a better drink? (By Joshua M. Bernstein)

World of Warcraft–Flavored Soda

This week’s mission: a beverage for gamers. (By James Norton)

Cocktail Culture, Las Vegas Style

A bar convention dips to the lowest common denominator. (By Jordan Mackay)

Diet Shake Showdown

This week’s mission: new healthy granola bars and a decent diet shake. (By James Norton)

Welcome to CHOW

Welcome to CHOW, a website devoted to the pleasure of food and drink. Come in and look around; you’ll find everything we wanted to do in print, as well as all the features that the Web allows.

Green Your Hangover

This week’s mission: An ecofriendly vodka gift pack and some meatless taco and burger mixes. (By James Norton)

That Heady Molecular Mixology

When a tail should really just be a tail. (By Jordan Mackay)

Cola, Now with Added Bull

This week’s mission: an herbal Pepsi-type drink and a hot, peppery spice mix from Oregon. (By James Norton)

10 Tips for a Healthy Diet

Help along your New Year’s resolution. (By Lessley Anderson)

Hangover Helpers

You can fix the headache and wooziness, but you can’t take back what you said to your Aunt Mavis. (By Traci Vogel)