Kitchen Confessional

Reading Nigel Slater’s diaries.

Your Beer Smells Like Goat

Beer geeks revel in weird, funky wild ales.

Make Your Own Baby Food

CHOW tested, baby approved.

Playing Favorites

The all-time classic Chowhound threads.

Raiding Harrison Ford's Liquor Cabinet

Table 8’s Govind Armstrong still makes time for friends (and mischief).

The Magic Numbers

One man blends his way to the perfect bottle of wine.

100 Pounds of Leftovers

A meat-and-potatoes guy tries to save money by buying an entire side of beef.

The Business of Fun

Marco Pierre White is sometimes a slave, sometimes a devil.

The Year in Food 2008

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

Use instant polenta to make a cheesy snack.

Three different beans and some TVP are slow-cooked with lots of herbs and spices.

I HATE it!! Have tried it over and over, both at home, in restaurants, and in Mexico, Spain,and Morocco. Just can not abide it. Don’t get its popularity.

Went today to Trader Joe’s, hoping to get Strauss' organic yogurt. All I could find was row after row of TJ’s branded stuff. And Costco sells Kirkland branded Bordeaux wine. And WF is overflowing with their own 365 crap....

plug your ears http://scoutmagazine.ca/2009/06/24/chef-job-at-araxi-for-gordon-ramsays-hells-kitchen-winner/

Avoid this place at all costs. Indifferent, sloppy, even rude I could take. Disrespectful to my wife and me, I cannot accept. The service started off sloppy - only one menu for two of us, and a request for a wine order before the...