This story shows what we all suspect: Wine ratings are highly subjective, and inconsistent. Yes, in some cases, a $100 bottle of wine tastes...

Eat Well, Eat Cheap has always been a big fan of old cast iron skillets . People abuse them. Thrift shops are full of rusty, grungy old o...

For a couple of years it's been very easy to fine red-wine bargains for less than $10 in just about any wine shop or supermarket in th...

Traditional Thai restaurants often serve a tasty offering that is part salad, part grazing buffet and part appetizer. Those three parts e...

Tim and Ruth are still flailing around and unable to post, but luckily our much-appreciated guest bloggers are stepping up! Ro Ann Redlin ...

Given the sad state of our recent postings over the past month—nonexistence—we are very grateful that two of our guest bloggers came throu...

Our vacation house had little in the way of food or good utensils, but we did have a lot of zucchini from our CSA box. We had invited som...

By mid-June our herb garden is bursting with basil, thyme, rosemary, sage, and (of course) mint, and we take full advantage, mixing and ma...

We're happy to report that the long-awaited CSA season has arrived. Our first box, from Great Country Farms in Bluemont, Virginia, wa...

We're lucky to have very accomplished foodie friends—people who can not only eat but cook, and cook much better than we could ever dre...

If you have one of Black & Decker's Spacemaker under-the-counter coffee machines, you should beware ! Your coffee pot may decide t...

Here in Northern Virginia, summer arrived with its usual wallop on Memorial Day weekend, complete with lung-crushing humidity and sledgeha...

Today Huffington Post has a great slideshow , courtesy of the wonderful wine site Snooth, illustrating and explaining seven big mistakes win...

We rarely push cookbooks here at Eat Well, Eat Cheap, but we do note when we've found one that helps make healthy eating a lot easier....

First off, apologies for the long post drought. How long has it been? So long that Blogger switched up the formatting while we were gone a...

Guest blogger Amy Friedman coined the wonderful term "schleppy fruit" to describe fruit that has gone around the bend: mealy appl...

We attended a birthday party recently where one of the guests brought a delicious roasted beet and goat cheese dip. Even the beet-haters lo...

For a recent dinner, our friend Chris Stinson dispensed with flowers and made a beautiful centerpiece featuring ruffly green kale, svelte re...

We thought we knew every edible grain that the planet had to offer, but guest blogger Amy Friedman proved us wrong. Check out her recipe fo...

Are you as sick of balsamic vinegar salad dressings as we are? Don't get us wrong—the mellow, aged vinegar is wonderful stuff, but we un...

Mark Bittman's recipe for No-Knead Bread may end up being his greatest legacy to cooking. Removing the tedious chore of kneading from b...

Yes, vinegar is plentiful and often cheap if you buy it in the store. And we do: rice, sherry, balsamic, pear, you name it. But we've ha...

Today's New York Times Dining section has a wonderful story on mindful eating that ranges from the techniques of Buddhist monks to eve...

We would find it hard to believe that the Super Bowl crept up on anyone, but let's imagine for a minute that the host of a party got sic...

 "Drink good wines habitually and fine wine occasionally." —Andre L. Simon, wine writer and author of A Concise Encyclopedia of Ga...

We saw a clever idea for a dinner party in the latest issue of Wine Enthusiast magazine . Use your special gourmet cookware or some other no...

As a blog that preaches “eat cheap,” and exalts good wines costing less than $10, Eat Well, Eat Cheap doesn’t get much of a c...