You Are What You Don't Eat

Ten ways to label you and your food. (By Meredith Arthur and Eric Slatkin)

A Russian reporter finds out the hard way that it can be extremely difficult to “buy local,” even when local is defined as “Russian.” (By James Norton)

Local Fizz

Go locavore with soda pop. (By Regan Burns)

Bistronomics 101

French chef Iñaki Aizpitarte proves that you don’t need a trust fund to afford haute cuisine. (By Aida Mollenkamp)

Summer Reading for the Food Obsessed

Books for the plane, the beach, or just curling up in bed. (By Kate Ramos)

The CHOW 13

Our first annual awards, presenting a baker’s dozen of provocateurs, trendsetters, and rabble-rousers. (By Lessley Anderson)

The Year in Food 2007

Vegansexuals, tainted dog food, greenwashing, and more.

Robin Williams’s character gives a local-foods defense on a network police drama. (By Traci Vogel)

A challenge to eat one meal a week made of local summer ingredients has the creative juices flowing. (By Traci Vogel)

Three cheftestants vie for the crown of top Cheapavore in a New York Magazine contest. (By Christy Harrison)

Does locavorism make economic sense? The Freakonomics blog wonders. (By Traci Vogel)

Salon asks: As foodservice giants jump on the eat-local bandwagon, will they dilute the movement’s potential benefits to the environment, family farmers, and food lovers? (By Christy Harrison)

Is “eat local” the same kind of challenge in California as it is in Michigan? (By Miriam Wolf)

Food Arts reports on a budding effort in southern Wisconsin to expose chefs and food purveyors to one another in record-setting time. (By James Norton)

The Case Against Farmed Shrimp

Like shrimp? Don’t read this post. (By James Norton)