Pasta with Caramelized Tomatoes and Sausage

Pair with a mixed green salad for a quick, satisfying meal.

What Is Liquid Smoke?

Tastes more substantial than it sounds.

Even Real Cooks Cheat Sometimes

This week’s mission: frozen food with highfalutin notions.

Make Your Own Chinese Takeout

This week’s mission: Chinese chicken kits, and a breakfast croissant with apples and hash browns.

Super Tuesday Eat Sheet

What the candidates eat says a lot about how they position themselves.

Venial Vegetable Trickery

This week’s mission: a snack mix with Cheerios, and frozen vegetables with health claims.

Cheesy Chips Mellow Out

This week’s mission: A subtler take on a corn chip favorite, and a terrific “natural” fruit drink.

Tinker, Tailor

An interview with Chef Sam Mason of Tailor.

Your Sassafras Has Been Neutered

Sassafras contains safrole, a believed carcinogen — so it’s unlikely that you’ll find any in your root beer.

Gotta Take This Call

Is it OK to answer your cell phone during dinner?

Lifting the Curse from the E.U.

Chef Akhtar Nawab talks about making over the formerly troubled New York gastropub.

Tony Bourdain Would Pimp for Prada

The No Reservations star shares his plans, real and imagined.

Our Maine Man

Sam Hayward of Fore Street on unpretentious, unctuous eats.

Hot Grilling Action

Tools for grilling that won’t get you burned.

Fishing with Rick Moonen

The chef and author talks about sustainable seafood.