Pack Your Knives and Go

Cooking vacations that steer clear of the tourist traps. (By Sheila Scarborough)

How to Start Your Own Dive Bar

Be the boss, bouncer, and favorite bartender. (By Lessley Anderson)

A West Sonoma Road Trip

Tasting rooms and dining rooms in our favorite slice of Northern California wine country. (By Lessley Anderson)

The Other Napa

What’s worth doing in the Napa Valley: a travel guide to the wine country. (By Ella Lawrence)

Bugs Meany’s car breaks down, leading to an exploration of a crazy outdoor food market. Only $1.50 for a feast of treats. (By Joshua M. Bernstein)

Upmarket fishmonger Wild Edibles knows what to do with soft shell crabs when they’re in season, which is now. For $14, they fry up two good-sized specimens and tuck them into a po’ boy roll with tartar sauce. Fries... (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Summer visitors to Finger Lakes wine country will find plenty to eat between vineyard visits, from fancy French to pub grub. (By C. Thi Nguyen)

First of all, it’s pronounced “New-fund-LAND.” The standard mnemonic offered by locals is, “You must underSTAND we’re in NewfoundLAND!” One cannot overstate the importance of not merely... (By Jim Leff)

I can’t deny the odd emptiness I feel when trying to inhale the romance of any winery scene maintained by a distant corporation. (By Daniel Duane)

Lots of people love Asheville, and it’s on the way to Tennessee, so I stopped in to check it out. I found a town with a profound identity crisis, equal parts hippie artists, rural North Carolinians, and yuppies. (By Jim Leff)

I’ve traversed Nova Scotia, trading the bucolic salty south shore for the bucolic salty north, where I scored a surprisingly inexpensive room ($125 Canadian) at hoity-toity Blomidon Inn (195 Main Street, Wolfville, Nova... (By Jim Leff)

Ravenous from skipping supper last night, I did a double breakfast in Asheville, trying two places touted on Chowhound.com. First I hit the hippy-dippy Sunny Point Cafe (625 Haywood Road, Asheville, North Carolina; 828-252-0055). (By Jim Leff)