Know Your Peppers

CHOW’s visual guide to chile peppers.

Roasted Delicata Squash Salad

With warm sherry vinaigrette, spinach, pumpkin seeds, shallots, and ricotta salata.

Great Grater, and Now Greater Graters

Microplane changed cheese graters forever. It just keeps getting better.

When Hunger Strikes

A little crunch, a little salt, a little sugar: These are the snacks we reach for.

Enough with the Workplace Candy!

Is it OK to tell people to stop bringing in sweets?

Dispatch from Terra Madre

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

Bringing the Bee to Its Knees

Think every squeeze bear is filled with the same sweet golden goo?

Italian Ice Cream Trance State

This week’s mission: fake fancy mac ’n' cheese, and real fancy gelato.

Bark If You Like It

What to cook for the dog that eats everything.

Life Lessons in Gardening

Brent Ridge of Beekman 1802 discusses leaving Martha behind for dirty feet and early morning pig feedings.

Modern Potluck

Feed a crowd with recipes from some of CHOW’s favorite chefs.

10 Mail-Order Gifts for 2009

Send a boozy, chocolaty, or meaty present this holiday season.

Thankful for Burgundy

It’s a special treat to taste these Thanksgiving-friendly wines in their true habitat.

10 Food Feuds

Is there nothing original in food anymore?

No Skin Off

CHOW finds the best peelers.