High Holidays Recipes

From our friends at the Jew & the Carrot.

Holiday Cocktails

Libations both alcoholic and virgin, from cider to punch and beyond.

Thanksgiving Leftovers

Recipes to use up turkey, cranberry sauce, and sweet potatoes from your holiday meal.

How to Make Granola

From raw oats to toasty oats in no time.

Chocolate Desserts

From fudge to cookies and even (chocolaty) caramel apples.

Making Gefilte Fish

The classic Jewish holiday dish, made from scratch at Firefly Restaurant in San Francisco.

10 Ways to Spice Up Pumpkin Seeds

Serve up the seeds from your Halloween pumpkin as a tasty snack with these recipes.

Does Bottled Water Ever Go Bad?

Plastic containers aren’t as watertight as you think.

How to Bottle

You can get the pop in the bottles, but make sure the bottles don’t pop

CHOW Ginger Beer

Ginger beer from scratch for the DIY-er in all of us.

CHOW Root Beer

Brew and bottle this classic soda yourself.

How Does Plastic Wrap Cling?

It’s got that special stick-to-it-ive-ness.

But I Only Have Plastic

How restaurants should handle "cash only."

Is Drinking Shower Water Bad?

Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.

Fancy Tonic Water Not Worth the Fancy Price

This week’s mission: fancy-pants imported tonic water and chips made from slow-baked fruit.