Singled Out

The dos and don’ts of inviting unattached guests to your parties.

Single White Vegan Seeks Same

Is it shallow to consider diet when dating?

Joined at the Hip

It’s bad manners for couples to form social units.

Get a Room

When couples touch too much.

If It Ain't Dark, It Ain't Chocolate

The gourmet chocolate trend has spawned dark-chocolate snobs.

Dour Cookies for a Desert Island

This week’s mission: healthy whole-grain cookies, and fancy juice blends.

Palate Tease

Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso talk about life before arugula and The Silver Palate Cookbook, 25 years later.

Curry by the Book

In search of a true spice education from a new Indian cookbook.

Masters of the Bean

Today’s coffee connoisseurs want to be on a first-name basis with their roaster. They want to know not only which country the beans came from but which region, or even which “estate.” They obsess over freshness and brew time and...

this kind of scary premonition that Single Gourment will be me and a bunch of 90 year old never married school marms eating wet toast and warm milk. Or some group of psychotic stalkers who call you at 3 am to invite you to Olive...

Seasons. On the Northshore in Salem the Lyceaum Bar & Grill has terrific food at half the price of Boston restos served in a warm and inviting setting. A single person can eat at the very small bar at Mamma Maria in the north end...

Perhaps we can share some strategies for interesting cooking for one. Easy solutions: invite someone to dinner – particularly if you have a yen for a roast; give some away. But that won’t do for every night. I’m...

Any Hounds going to the Grilled Cheese Invitational tomorrow? Any recs from years past? http://grilledcheeseinvitational.com/

, and only 1 ( a single guy) brought food; another threesome brought flowers. I only want people to ask, and then I can respond accordingly. But, am I wrong to think you can be invited, not ask, show up and eat/drink, and not at...

ok this is not an allergy to cats thread but how do you CHers feel about being invited to someone’s house where you know, positively, that their cats are allowed to, and do, roam on the kitchen counters? I love animals, have...