Unemployment Benefits

Should you pick up the tab for jobless friends?

Should You Really Be Eating That?

Influencing an overweight friend’s eating habits.

Guilty-Pleasure Protein Drink

This week’s mission: creamy, not chalky, meal-replacement beverages.

Bad Expensive Tea

This week’s mission: a fruit-flavored party drink and classy tea bags.

Food Econ 101

Paul Roberts, the author of The End of Food, dishes on the food system.

Red Wine Cures Cancer

No, it doesn’t. But maybe it will help us live longer.

Will It Save My Life?

CHOW reveals just how good for you superfoods really are.

Snack Time for Lazarus

This week’s mission: superfood bars and stovetop comfort-food kits.

Is Soy Lecithin Bad for You?

And what is it, anyway?

10 Food-Related Charities

Put your money toward gifts that benefit good causes.

What's the Difference Between Brown Sugars?

What’s the difference between the various types of brown sugar (light, dark, Demerara, turbinado, and muscovado)?

What to Do with Plain Yogurt

Drink it, make cheese with it, cook with it instead of sour cream or buttermilk.

Filet of Petri Dish

The same technologies scientists use to grow human tissue in a lab may one day be used to grow animal tissue to feed the world.

Shelf-Stable Chicken in Kool-Aid Sauce

This week’s mission: low-cal, assemble-it-yourself convenience food and wannabe Italian dinners.

Kashi All Natural Frozen Entrées and Extra-Healthy Yogurts

This week’s mission: elegant frozen dinners and probiotic-boosted yogurts.