Get Healthy Real Easy

This week’s mission: two servings of vegetables in a powder and one in a soup.

What's the Difference Between Brown Sugars?

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

Seed Saving for Beginners

Adapt plants to your own private patch of dirt.

Sour Grapes

A vinegar primer.

Play It Cool

A menu of no-cook recipes for the hottest days.

What Shame Looks Like

This week’s mission: diet-friendly coffee cake bites, and rainbow-medley Tic Tacs.

Burst in Your Mouth

Gear columnist Louisa Chu experiments with two new lines of chemical additives used for molecular gastronomy dishes.

Whole Grains 101

How to cook them and why they’re worth the wait.

Whiskey Primer

Watch out for the revenuers.

Return of the Oysters

Oyster aquaculture may help save the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.

The Awkward Lip-Kiss Greeting

Is it appropriate to give and receive a peck on the lips when you see friends?

You Are What You Don't Eat

Ten ways to label you and your food.

10 Cosmetic Uses for Everyday Foods

Sometimes, getting egg on your face can be a good thing.

A Cheese Primer

CHOW’s guide to the major cheese types.

Actress in the Kitchen

An interview with Madhur Jaffrey.