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CHOW’s ecoconscious remodel guide.

Indoor Voices, Please!

What to do when the table next to you is noisy.

The New Whiskey Rebellion

In the rye versus bourbon smackdown, bourbon has always triumphed.

Well-Preserved

New canning jars from Ball.

Bring On the Bubbles

A primer on champagne.

Counter Measures

Ten ways to green your kitchen.

Your Beer Smells Like Goat

Beer geeks revel in weird, funky wild ales.

DIY Kitchen Fixes

Five practical fixes to save space and beautify your kitchen.

Summer 2009 Gift Guide

All your warm-weather gifting needs met.

In any wine that has been stopped with natural cork, a small percentage of bottles will be “corked”–tainted by chemicals that naturally occur in the cork, resulting in a bitter, acrid taste.

Wine corks find new life through recycling program.

More fuel for the cork versus synthetic closures argument: the renewable nature of cork and the threatened state of cork forests.

If it’s rubber and not natural "cork" you can try to pu in or even cut it with a long paring knife. Be careful!

I opened a bottle of red wine last night and found a dark red/black grainy gunk all over the bottom of the cork and around the neck of the bottle. It looked sort of crystalized on the bottom of the cork, like black salt crystals....

I installed cork floors in my kitchen 2 years ago when I wasn’t able to refinish the room’s orginal woods floors, which were badly damaged. I thought cork would offer some of the benefits of wood, and it does. Cork is...