Toasts, Not Roasts

How to get a wedding speech right.

Garden Harvest Toasted Chips and Hemp Bliss Organic Hempmilk

This week’s mission: Quasi-healthy chips containing fruit, and nondairy “milk” that tastes like rancid nuts.

Sensitive New Age Cocktails

Does a happy bartender make a better drink?

Vinnie Cilurzo Gets Funky

The daring beers of Russian River Brewing Company.

Life Lessons in Gardening

Brent Ridge of Beekman 1802 discusses leaving Martha behind for dirty feet and early morning pig feedings.

Dean Karnazes's Extreme Meal Plan

Running 1,300 miles makes you very hungry.

Kitchen Confessional

Reading Nigel Slater’s diaries.

Deck the Halls with Beer

Holiday brews cheer the American beer market.

How to Make the Ultimate Bagel

It’s in the boiling and the malt.

How to Grill (Almost) Everything

Recipes to keep you fired up all summer long.

To See a World in a Grain of Dry Ice

Does Chef Heston Blumenthal really find perfection?

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.

A Cheese Primer

CHOW’s guide to the major cheese types.

These are my Top-5 things I’d like to master (or get as close to mastering, meaning more improvement) during the next year. I’m probably not as experienced as most here, but these are my modest goals. I already know I will try...

I stopped by Goal International on Franklin Avenue on Saturday night. It is a Peruvian restaurant in Hartford Connecticut. They were busy, the bar was full, with a few different soccer games on TV. I should’ve checked to...