Fighting Wine Snobbery

Don’t encourage the wine bores in your life.

Well-Heeled Wines

Puglian wines get a much-needed lesson in New World marketing.

The Extortionate Glass of Wine

Is wine by the glass a total ripoff?

How to Tip on Wine?

It’s already marked up so much.

Deciphering German Wine

Kabinett, trocken, feinherb?

Good Label, Bad Wine

CHOW tastes wines with great labels and discovers the duds.

Of Jamón and Birch Wine

A week’s worth of eating in Spain, at Madrid Fusión 2008.

Classic Cobb Salad

The original composed salad that originated at the Brown Derby in Los Angeles in the Hollywood heyday of the 1930s.

Nonalcoholic Wine-Flavored Soda

This week’s mission: a new libation for designated drivers.

Pairing Sunshine with a Wine's Tart Spritz

Iberian whites are like a splash of lemon juice on seafood.

Garlicky Kale and Spinach Dip

Kale and spinach give body to this pestolike dip.

Robert Parker's Wine Ratings Creep

The numbers are edging up, but their relevance is going down.

How Are Nonalcoholic Beer and Wine Made?

Secrets of fake booze revealed.

Roasted Elephant Garlic Soup with Grilled Eggplant

A delicate marriage of sweet and savory.

Harissa-Marinated Tri-Tip Roast

Harissa paste spices up this quick preparation.