Winter 2009 Gift Guide: Under $15

Holiday gift ideas, including quirky gingerbread molds, sweet ideas for tabletops, and special seeds for your favorite gardener.

Celebrity Gingerbread: Law and Order Edition

Memorialize your favorite big-shot hooligans in cookie form.

Check out the gingerbread at Semifreddi’s Bakery, says Alexandra Eisler. It’s a small, old-fashioned tea loaf, very highly spiced with ginger and molasses, and very moist. (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Winter 2009 Gift Guide

The gifts keep on giving and being given. (By Roxanne Webber)

A Dash of Guinness

Cooking with Ireland’s famed brew. (By Roxanne Webber)

Fighting Wine Snobbery

Don’t encourage the wine bores in your life. (By Helena Echlin)

From Me to You

Your host and hostess deserve your thanks.

Whole Grains with Flavor

Or a grain of barley, or couscous, or anything whole and wholesome. (By Nicole Spiridakis)

10 Food Tattoos

Food looks just as good in ink. (By Eric Slatkin)

Winter 2008 Gift Guide

There’s never been a better time to give.

Mistakes Were Made

And lessons learned—25 tips from new cooks. (By Lessley Anderson)

Holiday Beer Cheer 2007

CHOW rates this year’s winter warmers. (By Kurt Wolff)

It's Not Fat, It's Big-Boned

In honor of its 50th year, Bon Appétit muscles in with a heavy tome. (By Sara Dickerman)

Holiday Central

Recipes, menus, gifts, and entertaining tips for all your celebratory needs.

Summer 2009 Gift Guide

All your warm-weather gifting needs met. (By Lessley Anderson and Roxanne Webber)