Comfy Clothes and White Tablecloths

Must you still dress up for nice restaurants?

Playing Favorites

The all-time classic Chowhound threads.

A Cheese Primer

CHOW’s guide to the major cheese types.

Destination: Twin Cities Crawl

Well fed and hung over at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Destination: Denver on the Cheap

Kingpin food on a volunteer budget at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

hi hounds, if you want, you can get an rss feed of fda food recalls; just go to this page to sign up or just read about recent recalls: feed://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/rssRecalls.xml

Whole Foods Market is expanding its voluntary beef recall to include stores in Maryland. The fresh ground beef sold between June 2nd and August 6th could potentially be contaminated with E-coli bacteria. The beef in question is...

It’s a mother whose kids won’t eat vegetables, so she works her way through the alphabet cooking several recipes for each vegetable. The kids rate each recipe. I think they were in England. It had a lot of really good...

Whatever your feelings about Whole Foods as a business, I don’t see how it is their fault that their supplier sent out meat that was tainted in processing. I would hope people learn from this to find out whether ground...

He remains one of my all time favorites. As I recall, there was Floyd on Food and Floyd on France, too. Does anyone know what he’s doing now? It would be great if Food TV re-ran some of his shows.

Fresh wasabi is virtually unheard of outside Japan. Faking it is easier and cheaper than trying to find the real thing.

The term “artificially flavored” has long drawn scorn from food lovers. Products besmirched with the term are deemed cheap, vapid, and vaguely evil. Such foods declare themselves to have been produced via methods...

contamination by listeria bacteria. Any Chowhounds who have ordered ANY prepared food from them—meaning, pates, terrines, french kisses, truffle butter, smoked duck (see today’s NYTimes for full list of recalled...

Donut Product Recalls Dressing and Seasoning Product Recalls Fruit and Vegetable Product Recalls Ice Cream Product Recalls Peanut Product Recalls Peanut Butter Product Recalls Peanut Paste Product Recalls Pet Food Product

bidding out work or having sub-contractors and D’Artagnan has now had issues with multiple plants. After several recalls the time has come to be very cautious with this vendor in regards to pre-cooked food. I try to play by...