Make Your Own Chinese Takeout

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

Absinthe-Minded

Sure, the spirit is legal. But will it matter?

Tony Bourdain Would Pimp for Prada

The No Reservations star shares his plans, real and imagined.

10 Ways to Eat More Bacon

Elvis, Metallica—everybody loves it!

Buenos Aires: Faded Elegance, High Design

Buenos Aires’s up-and-coming San Telmo neighborhood.

Candy's Black Sheep

Salty, medicinal black licorice won’t satisfy your sweet tooth, but you might like it anyway.

Egg Magic

Tools for de-yolking, poaching, and beheading eggs.

How to Eat More

Make room for the good stuff.

The Colonel's Got Competition

Great eats in Louisville, Kentucky.

Indoor Composting Systems

Turn kitchen scraps into fertilizer with one of these kits.

Curry by the Book

In search of a true spice education from a new Indian cookbook.

Summer 2009 Gift Guide

All your warm-weather gifting needs met.

The CHOW 13

Our first annual awards, presenting a baker’s dozen of provocateurs, trendsetters, and rabble-rousers.

Champagne Glasses

Celebrate with bubbles.

Vietnamese Building Blocks

Stepping "Into the Vietnamese Kitchen."