Jiffy Roast

Roasting coffee is as easy as popping popcorn.

My Summer Wine Love

This year, it’s Rueda.

Life Lessons in Gardening

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

Chronicles from a Pig Party

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights.

Down-Home Prosciutto

The country ham is our native prosciutto or serrano, though most Southerners wouldn’t dream of throwing an uncooked leg on a deli slicer and shaving some to go with the asparagus. Most Northerners, meanwhile, have never heard of...

Dispatch from Terra Madre

Our food editor reports from Slow Food’s global get-together.

The Year in Food 2008

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

The Taste of an Oyster

Plus a dozen oysters you should know.

The Spice That Binds

A vanilla primer.

Seth, i’ll be blowing the horn as soon as I hear anything. I've been trying to call the old number in case I can contact them again. I was hoping to purchase a few more jars of their caramel and jams, in case they had any...

Just a friendly alert re Bistro du Coin – if you search this board for past posts, you’ll find many, many negative ones re this place – food isn’t special, and their attitude is, well, lousy. I've always...

Absinthe made with real Grande Wormwood is now legally available in the United States.

Anyone know any info on what is happening with the opening of Buca on king west? Happening soon? Postponed? Any rumors at all?

The local farmers' markets will open in a week or two. A former Evanstonian, I've been a devoted fan of the Evanston Farmers' Market as long as I can remember, even driving upnearly every Saturday from the city where I have been...

George Bush Blvd and the Intracoastal) is reopening. I've seen workers outside lately, and a former staffer tells me it’s definitely coming back