Make Your Own Sausage

Joining sauerkraut and beer in the great Oktoberfest triumvirate.

Make Your Own Chinese Takeout

This week’s mission: Chinese chicken kits, and a breakfast croissant with apples and hash browns. (By James Norton)

Make Your Own Baby Food

CHOW tested, baby approved.

Jiffy Roast

Roasting coffee is as easy as popping popcorn. (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Your Computer Can't Roast a Chicken

Food-related desktop widgets, from egg timers to tail dictionaries. (By Eric Slatkin)

Toasts, Not Roasts

How to get a wedding speech right. (By Helena Echlin)

That Coffee's Rotten

And other fermentation facts. (By Lessley Anderson)

The Basics: How to Roast a Turkey

The centerpiece of Thanksgiving dinner.

How Green Is Your Takeaway Container?

Which takeaway containers are the most (and least) green? (By Elizabeth Gillian)

How Do They Remove the Caffeine from Coffee?

There are more ways than one. (By Roxanne Webber)

You Can't Afford This Coffee Maker

The high-tech Clover, and two affordable alternatives. (By Louisa Chu)

What Is Instant Coffee?

Does it come from the same plant as regular coffee? (By Kara Zuaro)

Coffee at Cocaine Prices

Geoff Watts of Intelligentsia Coffee shelled out $33,000 for five bags of coffee. What was so good about it? (By Heather Shouse)

Oven Ready Turkey and Tofurky Roast

This week’s mission: way-too-quick-cooking real turkey, and a gussied-up vegetarian protein. (By James Norton)

Your Meat Is Green

Tips for responsible carnivores. (By Roxanne Webber)