Vietnamese-Style Summer Rolls with Peanut Sauce

Fresh, summery ingredients in a neatly wrapped package.

Little Ditsy Cream Pies

Sandwiches of oatmeal cookies filled with vanilla cream melt in your mouth.

Second Careers in Food ... that Failed

Highway of sorrow paved with brioche.

Food Econ 101

Paul Roberts, the author of The End of Food, dishes on the food system.

10 Ways to Barter for Food

I’ve got zucchini if you’ve got tomatoes.

Bring Your Own Plastic Container

The greenest takeout packaging.

Make Your Own Chinese Takeout

This week’s mission: Chinese chicken kits, and a breakfast croissant with apples and hash browns.

The Year in Food 2008

What we ate, what the candidates ate, what the Olympians ate.

How Green Is Your Takeaway Container?

Which takeaway containers are the most (and least) green?

Take Your Lunch to Work: Beans

One package of white beans; five easy, varied, and quick lunches.

Steppin' Up Your Cheese Game

This week’s mission: frozen diet dinners featuring fruit, and classy cheese vehicles.

How to Prepare for the Meal of Your Life

Six months ago you nabbed a reservation at the hottest restaurant in town. Now the meal of your life is two days away. You have to be prepared. You have to be psyched. You have to make the most of it. But how?

You're Supposed to Burn It

Tools for creating aromatic smoke, à la the molecular gastronomists

Your Sassafras Has Been Neutered

Sassafras contains safrole, a believed carcinogen — so it’s unlikely that you’ll find any in your root beer.

Make Your Own Soda Pop

How to brew homemade ginger beer and root beer.