10 Reasons Why Whole Foods Is Annoying

For example: carob-glazed doughnut holes.

You Are What You Don't Eat

Ten ways to label you and your food.

Dispatch from Terra Madre

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

100 Pounds of Leftovers

A meat-and-potatoes guy tries to save money by buying an entire side of beef.

Winter 2006 Gift Guide

Give like you’ve never given before.

The Year in Food 2008

What we ate, what the candidates ate, what the Olympians ate.

The Year in Food 2006

From bad spinach to exploding lattes: The tastiest moments of 2006.

Required reading for anyone who eats.

After nearly a year of trading public missives about the state of sustainable food, Michael Pollan and John Mackey met for a live debate this week. The thoughtful discussion wasn’t the smackdown that one blogger had...

From cave paintings to burgers, beef has long been a part of human history.

Washington state considers a bill to incorporate local farm-fresh food into school lunch menus.

Why I Would Spend $200 on Dinner

Because I love local farmers and the produce they grow, I love the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, and I love Bay Area chefs.

IN DEFENSE OF FOOD Michael Pollan's lecture on Feb 27 if you are attending, where will 'Chowhounds go to eat afterwards? Something appropos I suspect?

The Los Angeles Times discovers the quirkiness that is legendary Bay Area supermarket Berkeley Bowl.

Journalist Michael Pollan and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey are planning to meet mano a mano on February 27 in the face-off that has the San Francisco Bay Area food-politics community buzzing with excitement.