Is There a Difference Between Brown and White Eggs?

Paying more doesn’t mean they’re better for you. (By Michele Foley)

Chronicles from a Pig Party

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights. (By Kate Ramos)

Masters of the Bean

Today’s coffee connoisseurs want to be on a first-name basis with their roaster. They want to know not only which country the beans came from but which region, or even which “estate.” They obsess over freshness and brew time and... (By Brendan Vaughan)

What's a Maraschino Cherry?

That sweet, bright-red orb can’t possibly be fruit. (By Tiffany Maleshefski)

Fungus Amongus

Coming soon: American-grown truffles. (By Stett Holbrook)

Local Fizz

Go locavore with soda pop. (By Regan Burns)

Hold the Cream of Mushroom Soup

From Bismarck to St. Paul to Madison, new high-end restaurants are embracing such local cuisine as fried walleye and wild-rice porridge. Call it the birth of northwoods chic. (By James Norton)

Hot Spring in Paris

An interview with Daniel Rose, the American chef of the most buzzed-about restaurant in Paris. (By Louisa Chu)

Opening Night at the Eat-O-Plex

Can pizza and beer save the movies? (By Lessley Anderson and Eric Slatkin)

Way Beyond Salad Dressing

Or, how to use vinegar and citrus in your cooking to punch up flavors. (By Aida Mollenkamp and Roxanne Webber)

Danger: Food Present

Food allergies are on the rise and on the mind. (By Chris Colin)

Buenos Aires: Faded Elegance, High Design

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

The Year in Food 2008

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

Modern Florence

Beyond David and the duomo. (By Aida Mollenkamp)

Lots of people love Asheville, and it’s on the way to Tennessee, so I stopped in to check it out. I found a town with a profound identity crisis, equal parts hippie artists, rural North Carolinians, and yuppies. (By Jim Leff)