What's the Difference Between Brown Sugars?

What’s the difference between the various types of brown sugar (light, dark, Demerara, turbinado, and muscovado)?

Mapping the Mustache

CHOW’s milk taste test.

Whiskey Primer

Watch out for the revenuers.

French-Fried Nirvana

CHOW reviews two great pieces of deep-frying equipment for the home chef.

Virgin Drink Reminder

Party beverage advice for the holidays, or anytime.

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 Room Cafe.

Campari's Made from Bugs

A lot of stuff you thought was vegan isn’t.

Stinky Seatmate

What not to eat on planes.

Shelf-Stable Chicken in Kool-Aid Sauce

This week’s mission: low-cal, assemble-it-yourself convenience food and wannabe Italian dinners.

Seed Saving for Beginners

Adapt plants to your own private patch of dirt.

That Coffee's Rotten

And other fermentation facts.

Return of the Salmon Mousse

The Silver Palate duo makes nice and makes dinner.

Salty, Dark, Distinctive

All soy sauces are not created equal.

Summer 2009 Gift Guide

All your warm-weather gifting needs met.

From Scarface to Key Lime Pie

A culinary tour of seedy-but-cool Red Hook, Brooklyn