Slow Spirits

If booze is to be slow, it has to be right.

Fishing with Rick Moonen

The chef and author talks about sustainable seafood.

Your Order Is Politically Incorrect

How to address ethically challenged eaters.

10 Food-Related Charities

Put your money toward gifts that benefit good causes.

Drunk on Recycling

Can you ask guests to bring their own cups?

Does the Grapefruit Diet Work?

The citrus isn’t a magic weight-loss cure, as you might have guessed.

What's a Generic Product?

They’re often made by big-name brands, but without the actual branding.

The Napkin Defense

You lose cred when you use paper.

On the Hunt for Wild Yeast

Chatting with home fermentation expert Sandor Ellix Katz.

Cheesy Beefy Melt and Simple Harvest Hot Cereal

This week’s mission: a new comforting burrito and wholesome, flavored oatmeal for adults.

On the Chopping Block

CHOW reviews the best wood cutting boards.

10 Simple Ways to Be More Green

That don’t involve extra money, time, or even effort.

Unemployment Benefits

Should you pick up the tab for jobless friends?

Dispatch from Terra Madre

Our food editor reports from Slow Food’s global get-together.

Our Favorite Butchers

We go for the real meat, the sustainably farmed, humanely raised and slaughtered, heritage, no-hormone, quality product, and for guys behind the counter knowledgeable enough to tell us where the meat came from and how to cook it.