What’s the Best Drink to Order in a Dive Bar?

Some safe bets when the liquor is sketchy.

A Dash of Guinness

Cooking with Ireland’s famed brew.

Spirit of Peace

Aquavit calms the stormy waters swirling between gin and vodka.

Just Watch Me Drink

How to deal with prissy nondrinkers.

College Cooks Gone Wild!

Crème brûlée in the microwave and other desperate dorm-room tricks.

Destination: Twin Cities Crawl

Well fed and hung over at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Pimp My Dive

CHOW’s ultimate product guide for furnishing your dive bar.

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.

The Conference You Wish You Went To

A report from Tales of the tail.

A West Sonoma Road Trip

Tasting rooms and dining rooms in our favorite slice of Northern California wine country.

Common Appliances, Uncommon Uses

Dust off your underused equipment and discover new applications.

The Minimalist's Dessert

Cookbook author and confectioner Alice Medrich talks about her love of simple, artisanal sweets.

From Scarface to Key Lime Pie

A culinary tour of seedy-but-cool Red Hook, Brooklyn

10 Super Bowl Commercials

Some of our favorite food-and-drink ads from games past.

The Year in Food 2008

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