Experiments with Ham Powder

Lark’s Johnathan Sundstrom wins James Beard and gets edgy.

10 Food Tattoos

Food looks just as good in ink.

Indoor Composting Systems

Turn kitchen scraps into fertilizer with one of these kits.

Vinnie Cilurzo Gets Funky

The daring beers of Russian River Brewing Company.

How to Grow Herbs Indoors

Easy? Maybe not. Rewarding? Hell yeah.

White-Collar Moonshine

Urbanites flout federal law with their new favorite hobby: home distilling.

Vietnamese Building Blocks

Stepping "Into the Vietnamese Kitchen."

Zinfandel's Not the Ugly American

That loud, blowzy wine gets tamed.

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...

Warm Beer's No Fun

The best coolers on the market.

Strained and Drained

Tools for getting the most out of your food.

Sharpen Up

How to care for your knives.

Burst in Your Mouth

Gear columnist Louisa Chu experiments with two new lines of chemical additives used for molecular gastronomy dishes.

A West Sonoma Road Trip

Tasting rooms and dining rooms in our favorite slice of Northern California wine country.

Fewer than 1100

1080 Recipes offers a view into Spanish home cooking.