New Year's, Japanese Style

Trade in your champagne and hors d’oeuvres for sake and mochi.

As Seen on TV

Television characters and the food they eat.

Make Your Own Candy Bars

Corner-store sweets go high-end.

Fewer than 1100

1080 Recipes offers a view into Spanish home cooking.

Greens Goddess

Cookbook author Deborah Madison spills the beans with CHOW.

Vile, Terrible, Nasty, and Ugly

CHOW talks to A. A. Gill about the business of reviewing restaurants, organics as a style statement, and the dark evil of Starbucks.

Michael Ruhlman's So Rational

He’s got a new book and a message to Americans: Get a cooking scale and some sharp knives.

To See a World in a Grain of Dry Ice

Does Chef Heston Blumenthal really find perfection?

Mistakes Were Made

And lessons learned—25 tips from new cooks.

Mushrooms Will Save the World

And other findings from Taste^3^ 2007.

The Hamburger Through Time

A short history of the greatest American food icon.

Make Your Own Preserves

How to hold on to summer’s best produce: canning.

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