The Perfect Drink for Summer Nights

Hot ’n' sweaty? Try a Dark ’n' Stormy. (By Jordan Mackay)

California Terroir

Wines that taste like they’re from somewhere. (By Jordan Mackay)

From Scarface to Key Lime Pie

A culinary tour of seedy-but-cool Red Hook, Brooklyn (By Kara Zuaro)

The New Hippie Kitchen

Cooking the iconoclast way, in yurts, tepees, and more. (By Lessley Anderson and Roxanne Webber)

Church Bake Sale Chic

Two new NYC public food markets. (By Lessley Anderson)

Cricket Hill brewmaster Rick Reed pops every vein in this over-the-top and now-YouTubed speech before a tour group. (By Nicholas Day)

Japanese villagers use rice paddies as their canvas. (By Nicholas Day)

Fairway satisfies the craving at a single-digit price. (By Mark Hokoda)

Rivoli’s new casual cousin, Corso. (By Cicely Wedgeworth)

Competitive eating may get a lot of media attention these days, but sword-swallowing has become the first esophagus-busting sport to attract scholarly study. (By Christy Harrison)

Acme Smoked Fish sells its wares to such higher-end purveyors as Zabar’s, Citarella, and Russ and Daughters–and, one morning a week, to us retail-paying civilians. (By Mark Hokoda)

Jim loses weight despite the CHOWTour. In this dispatch he explores Reading Market and the supermarket chip aisle. (By Jim Leff)