The CHOW 13

Our first annual awards, presenting a baker’s dozen of provocateurs, trendsetters, and rabble-rousers.

Wine Whiner

Is it OK to send vino back if you hate it?

Bite the Antenna

Wires and spikes make up modern serviceware from Crucial Detail.

Sharpen Up

How to care for your knives.

The Business of Fun

Marco Pierre White is sometimes a slave, sometimes a devil.

Foot Fetish

What’s with the “shoes off” rule?

The Raw Deal

As raw food goes commercial, purists cry foul.

They Eat Horses, Don't They?

Much of the world sees horse as a delicacy. Much of the world gets its horsemeat from America. Yet Americans won’t touch it.

Have a Barbera

The over-planted Italian everyday wine gets refined.

Dispatch from Terra Madre

Our food editor reports from Slow Food’s global get-together.

Strip Club Eats

Ten gentlemen’s lounges with good food. Seriously.

Dean Karnazes's Extreme Meal Plan

Running 1,300 miles makes you very hungry.

Egg Magic

Tools for de-yolking, poaching, and beheading eggs.

Our Maine Man

Sam Hayward of Fore Street on unpretentious, unctuous eats.

Your Computer Can't Roast a Chicken

Food-related desktop widgets, from egg timers to tail dictionaries.