Even Real Cooks Cheat Sometimes

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

2009 Presidential Inauguration Menu

Celebrate with food inspired by Barack Obama’s favorites.

The Basics: How to Make Lasagne

The tried-and-true recipe you’ll hang onto forever.

Enough with the Workplace Candy!

Is it OK to tell people to stop bringing in sweets?

The CHOW 13

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

10 Mail-Order Gifts for 2009

Send a boozy, chocolaty, or meaty present this holiday season.

Shelf-Stable Ice Cream Float Disaster

This week’s mission: a fake prefab float, and a better-quality Nestlé Crunch bar.

The Basics: How to Make a Philly Cheesesteak

Minus the Cheez Whiz.

Tea Bags for Cocktails?

This week’s mission: frozen Italian meals with a reasonably healthy twist and tea bags for your mixed drink.

The New Hippie Kitchen

Cooking the iconoclast way, in yurts, tepees, and more.

Waiter, There's a Pig's Ear in My Soup

Your chef might be slipping you some offal.

Formaggio Kitchen

I’ll take one of each, please.

Bistronomics 101

French chef Iñaki Aizpitarte proves that you don’t need a trust fund to afford haute cuisine.

Bacon at the Beach

Ben Barker of Magnolia Grill relaxes with CHOW.

Stinky to Mild

How to build a cheese plate.