We're All Meatheads Now

One more addition to a pig-centric cookbook world.

Welcome to CHOW

Welcome to CHOW, a website devoted to the pleasure of food and drink. Come in and look around; you’ll find everything we wanted to do in print, as well as all the features that the Web allows.

Actress in the Kitchen

An interview with Madhur Jaffrey.

Brown Bag It

CHOW and Good Magazine ask: What’s in your lunch bag?

The Year in Food 2006

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

Fork Etiquette

Does using the right utensil even matter anymore?

How to Talk to Boring Relatives at Dinner

The experts of quality chat weigh in.

How to Judge Ice Cream

Jon Snyder, founder of New York's acclaimed Il Laboratorio del Gelato (and creator of the original Ciao Bella gelato), explains how he eats a pint of ice cream.

Return of the Oysters

Oyster aquaculture may help save the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.

Bad Food, Great Review

"In a world where there’s so much bad food even at the high level, I’d much rather eat at a restaurant that at least is taking care."

The Conference You Wish You Went To

A report from Tales of the tail.

Chinese Restaurants Open on Christmas

Skip the holiday entirely, or celebrate without cooking, in Florida, New York, and Los Angeles.

Fishing with Rick Moonen

The chef and author talks about sustainable seafood.

10 Beginner Cookbooks

Helpful titles for the novice cook.

The CHOW 13

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