Shelf-Stable Chicken in Kool-Aid Sauce

This week’s mission: low-cal, assemble-it-yourself convenience food and wannabe Italian dinners.

The Allure of Cheap Wine

Why a $40 bottle is not better than a $10 bottle.

Fast-Food Pizza Chains Attempt Gourmet

This week’s mission: pizzas that are less fake and greasy, and toasted ciabattas that are more fake and greasy.

Make Your Own Chinese Takeout

This week’s mission: Chinese chicken kits, and a breakfast croissant with apples and hash browns.

Tiny Cookies Took Me Down

This week’s mission: sugar cereal gimmickry from Post and Kellogg’s.

Bringing the Bee to Its Knees

Think every squeeze bear is filled with the same sweet golden goo?

On Tomatoes and Wine

Slice ’em if you’ve got ’em.

Another Secretly High-Calorie Salad

This week’s mission: Cold meets hot on a lettuce bed, and a new fast-food breakfast.

Steppin' Up Your Cheese Game

This week’s mission: frozen diet dinners featuring fruit, and classy cheese vehicles.

Venial Vegetable Trickery

This week’s mission: a snack mix with Cheerios, and frozen vegetables with health claims.

Advantage Spain

Navarra rosados can play with the best French rosés.

Have a Barbera

The over-planted Italian everyday wine gets refined.

Hops Luxury

Damn the world shortage of my favorite beer ingredient.

Sippin' Yak

Cognac and Armagnac converge in consonants but diverge in style.

Tasting Barolo Chinato

Take Barolo, add spice, and savor.