Injectable Marinades and 100-Calorie Snacks

This week’s mission: marinade you squirt into meat with a syringe, and tinier snack cakes. (By James Norton)

Chewy Cakey Fudgy

We sample and rank mail-order brownies, then give you a recipe for the “perfect” brownie.

Mum's the Velveeta

Keep your secret ingredients secret. (By Helena Echlin)

Special Moments with Grim Gruel

This week’s mission: personality-based soft drinks and microwave baked desserts. (By James Norton)

10 Ways to Eat More Bacon

Elvis, Metallica—everybody loves it! (By Kathryn Hawkins)

Holiday Central

Recipes, menus, gifts, and entertaining tips for all your celebratory needs.

The Year in Food 2008

What we ate, what the candidates ate, what the Olympians ate.

Grit and Grub in San Francisco's Tenderloin

From down-and-out to up-and-coming— the city’s next Mission District. (By Lessley Anderson)

Super-rich, fudgy, chewy, dark—take your pick. (By Caitlin McGrath)

Mix brownies that taste homemade. (By Sarah Perry)

Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey, Cherry Garcia, and Fudge Brownie ice cream flavors now come in milkshake form, bottled a la Starbuck’s Frappuccino. Made with shelf-stable milk, they don’t require refrigeration... (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Portland’s Voodoo Doughnut might put a spell on you. (By Tea Austen Weaver)

Have you seen those rather…questionable commercials for Domino’s Pizza’s newest sugar-shocked treat and wondered if toilet paper would be free with delivery? You’re not the only one. (By Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic)

Humphry Slocombe’s daring flavors: chile, vinegar, cornflakes? (By Cicely Wedgeworth)

Trois Pommes’ baked treats with seasonal fruit, Ladybird Bakery’s Brooklyn Blackout Cake, and Betty Bakery’s peanut butter sesame cookies. (By Mark Hokoda)