Environmentally Friendly Picnic Supplies

Enjoy the outdoors without trashing it. (By Roxanne Webber)

The Napkin Defense

You lose cred when you use paper. (By Helena Echlin)

Green Your Hangover

This week’s mission: An ecofriendly vodka gift pack and some meatless taco and burger mixes. (By James Norton)

Mapping the Mustache

CHOW’s milk taste test. (By Lessley Anderson)

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)

Mushrooms Will Save the World

And other findings from Taste^3^ 2007. (By Meredith Arthur and Lessley Anderson)

Indoor Composting Systems

Turn kitchen scraps into fertilizer with one of these kits. (By Michele Foley)

Upgrade Your Rags

Beautiful tea towels from eight top designers. (By Michele Foley)

Winter 2008 Gift Guide

There’s never been a better time to give.

Buenos Aires: Faded Elegance, High Design

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

Organic farmers are trying to get government money earmarked for organics into next year’s massive farm bill. (By Stephanie Rosenbaum)

A preposterous clause in the Farm Bill penalizes a farmer for planting fruits and vegetables. (By Nicholas Day)

When can creativity be copywrited? Food & Wine digs into the controversy over avant-garde chefs stealing recipes. (By Stephanie Rosenbaum)

The celebrity-driven ONE Campaign takes on government farm subsidies, urging members to work toward limiting these programs as a way to fight global poverty. (By Tea Austen Weaver)