Modern Florence

Beyond David and the duomo. (By Aida Mollenkamp)

Foods You Fight

Tips for eating saucy, messy, and hard-to-handle foods. (By Jessica Dolcourt)

Buenos Aires: Faded Elegance, High Design

Buenos Aires’s up-and-coming San Telmo neighborhood. (By Ella Lawrence)

Sweet treats from Spain. (By Aida Mollenkamp)

Vegetable napoleon might not sound like a native African dish, but it’s tasty stuff–a tower of grilled vegetables layered with gooey mozzarella and fresh spinach, topped with tomatoes, onions, and a pomegranate... (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Napoleons, macarons, and chocolate cupcakes to swoon over. (By Cicely Wedgeworth)

In the Little Persia south of Santa Monica Boulevard, a couple of places stand out for ZoeZ: Rose Market, with its wonderful rose petal ice cream and other great flavors, and Orchid Bakery. (By Cicely Wedgeworth)

The rise of industrial meat; the fall of cows. (By James Norton)

The Wall Street Journal introduces us to the hard-core sport of meat-judging. (By Miriam Wolf)

The pear-and-Brie sandwich at Elements. (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Her SXSW party officially “threw the WTF factor way over the roof.” (By Kara Zuaro)

Dana B’s pastry crawl through eight of the city’s new (less than a year old) bakeries yielded a few top picks… (By C. Thi Nguyen)

This was a day of transition, as one group of overfed, exhausted, cranky chowhound friends headed home and was replaced by fresh, zippy, happy eaters. (By Jim Leff)

Glorious croissant energy. (By Mark Hokoda)

Restaurant and bar tips from CHOW’s food editor. (By Aida Mollenkamp)