Sloshed with the Boss

Are you supposed to drink at a business meal?

Wine in Time

A light, summery wine can be perfect in winter.

10 Tips for a Healthy Diet

Help along your New Year’s resolution.

Ditch the Filters

Murky, cloudy wine might just be delicious.

Burden of Proof

When compared with, say, a typical 86-proof cognac, your typical wine would seem about as threatening as a bottle of Evian —right? But the alcohol level in wine varies.

Beer and Cheese

Forget wine: This is the perfect pairing.

Soy Cheese That Isn't Hateful

This week’s mission: shelf-stable chili and fake cheese fragments.

Did She Really Just Say That?

What to do when relatives drink too much and say embarrassing things.

10 Food Feuds

Is there nothing original in food anymore?

Unemployment Benefits

Should you pick up the tab for jobless friends?

Whole Grains with Flavor

Or a grain of barley, or couscous, or anything whole and wholesome.

The CHOW 13

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

A West Sonoma Road Trip

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

Absinthe-Minded

Sure, the spirit is legal. But will it matter?

Strip Club Eats

Ten gentlemen’s lounges with good food. Seriously.