How Does Magic Shell Ice Cream Topping Work?

Is it indeed magical?

Salmon Jerky "Candy"

Sugar-cured salmon jerky goes Nordic with the addition of caraway seeds.

Slow Food Nation's Victory Garden

Fight bad food policy by growing your own.

Brown Bag It

CHOW and Good Magazine ask: What’s in your lunch bag?

Unforbidden Fruit

How to help yourself from your neighbors' trees.

Behind the Swinging Doors

A day in the life of a restaurant kitchen.

10 Ways to Barter for Food

I’ve got zucchini if you’ve got tomatoes.

Indoor Voices, Please!

What to do when the table next to you is noisy.

How to Make Sauerkraut

Crunchy, tangy, alive!

Secrets of the Perfect Salsa

They wouldn’t give us the recipe, but that didn’t stop us.

White-Collar Moonshine

Urbanites flout federal law with their new favorite hobby: home distilling.

Make Your Own Sausage

Joining sauerkraut and beer in the great Oktoberfest triumvirate.

Seed Saving for Beginners

Adapt plants to your own private patch of dirt.

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.

Serve Wine, Make Wine

Sommeliers leap from restaurant floor to vineyard.