Your Order Is Politically Incorrect

How to address ethically challenged eaters.

Return of the Oysters

Oyster aquaculture may help save the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.

10 Food-Related Charities

Put your money toward gifts that benefit good causes.

What's the Difference Between Prawns and Shrimp?

Check out the tail.

Our Maine Man

Sam Hayward of Fore Street on unpretentious, unctuous eats.

What Do "Kosher" and "Halal" Mean?

Mystery deli terms explained.

Swamp Critters

CHOW goes to catch crawfish in the Louisiana swamps.

Grit and Grub in San Francisco's Tenderloin

From down-and-out to up-and-coming— the city’s next Mission District.

Our Favorite Butchers

We go for the real meat, the sustainably farmed, humanely raised and slaughtered, heritage, no-hormone, quality product, and for guys behind the counter knowledgeable enough to tell us where the meat came from and how to cook it.

Filet of Petri Dish

The same technologies scientists use to grow human tissue in a lab may one day be used to grow animal tissue to feed the world.

Campari's Made from Bugs

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

Eat Well and Save

Tips for spending less on good food.

R.I.P. Didier Dagueneau

Reflections on a great winemaker.

Mushrooms Will Save the World

And other findings from Taste^3^ 2007.

Pepper Is the New Salt

Eight best bets for sneezing and seasoning.