Make Your Own Jerky

Homemade jerky takes little more than patience.

I'll Pay You to Kill My Steer

Free-range and grass-fed animals are big with consumers. So why won’t most American slaughterhouses kill them?

Even Real Cooks Cheat Sometimes

This week’s mission: frozen food with highfalutin notions.

Meat at Your Door

Bypass the supermarket and buy it direct.

His Knife Has Got Your Back

Butchers can do all kinds of things for you— just ask.

Thoroughbred Dishes and Cocktails for Kentucky Derby Day

Ponies race, you eat.

The Basics: How to Make a Philly Cheesesteak

Minus the Cheez Whiz.

What Does India Have to Do with India Pale Ale?

It’s where the hopped-up brew first found fame.

A Dash of Guinness

Cooking with Ireland’s famed brew.

The Basics: How to Make a Bacon Cheeseburger

Pan-fried in bacon grease.

Worth the Search

Apricots from Turkey, beef from Japan — are the harder-to-track-down, usually imported ingredients any better than the more widely available versions?

Cola, Now with Added Bull

This week’s mission: an herbal Pepsi-type drink and a hot, peppery spice mix from Oregon.

Meals, Ready to Eat

Today there are 24 different MRE menus, such as Cheese Tortellini, Jamaican Pork Chop, and Jambalaya. Most are actually quite tasty.

What to Eat at the Ballpark

Chowhound picks for the best food and drink at games across the country.

Strip Club Eats

Ten gentlemen’s lounges with good food. Seriously.