Build Your Own Burrito Bar

Bring your local taqueria home, dress it up, and throw it a party.

Oreo Cakesters and Yoplait Go-Gurt Fizzix

This week’s mission: squishy Oreos and carbonated yogurt.

Thanksgiving, Southern Style

All the good stuff, plus how to fry a turkey without burning down the house.

Make Your Own Tofu

A homemade version of the vegetarian centerpiece.

Tea Bags for Cocktails?

This week’s mission: frozen Italian meals with a reasonably healthy twist and tea bags for your mixed drink.

King of Chaat

A Q&A with the reigning gol gappas vendor of Delhi.

Building a Killer Wedding Bar

How to spend intelligently and offer great drinks.

Sweet, Sour, Salty, What?

Americans have historically hated bitter tastes, while other cultures loved them. Until now. Chefs are playing with bitter in new ways, and U.S. diners are finally appreciating it.

Surgery in the Kitchen

Tiny tools help with obsessive details.

Celebrity Gingerbread: Law and Order Edition

Memorialize your favorite big-shot hooligans in cookie form.

The CHOW Guide to Eating and Drinking in Austin, SXSW edition

From Tex-Mex to high-end, CHOW brings you the best eating and drinking locations in Austin.

Clear Ginger Cosmopolitan

Infuse your own vodka for a real punch of ginger.

Fragrant Blueberry Jam

Packed with a punch berry, this jam is tasty enough to eat off the spoon.

A tail essential with an unexpected edge.

Glad you asked that question! I have a couple that are winners! They are my own recipes—so feel free to ad lib your own variations. Peach Ginger Champagne Punch For each bottle of champagne add a sliced peach (frozen peaches...