We got an eLetter from an online wine dealer the other day touting a Chilean Carmenére that scored 90 points (Wine Advocate) and cost only $...

We asked another friend, JP Vellotti, to write a guest blog. He's a food lover and cook, and his wife is a professional food writer. Whe...

[NOTE: Here's the second installment from guest blogger Kevin Ireton:] The idea of me writing a blog about cooking is truly laughable,...

NOTE: While Tim and Ruth deal with the multiple anxieties of a new job, a long-distance move and a pitilessly deadlined project, they'...

Tim may have discovered the secret (known by many, we're sure) to eating well and eating cheap on the road. We wrote earlier about how m...

Meridian is another of those wines that goes up and down, not by large degrees but by tiny increments. When it's good, it is pretty good...

Here's another submission to our Tomato Challenge, which was actually issued by another follower, Anonymous, who said she was drowning i...

We asked you all to send in recipes to aid others in taking advantage of this time of year when tomatoes are plentiful. Here's an easy o...

Edna Valley wine has been up and down over the last couple of decades. Produced in San Luis Obispo on the southern end of the central coast ...

Drop for drop, toasted sesame oil may provide more flavor than anything in our cupboards. Just a little bit added at the last moment to a st...

We don't like fast food anymore. We mean the kind of fast food that's sold by chain restaurants across America and most of the world...

Prep your fish for the grill with citrus and olive oil. Some people are afraid to grill fish. True, this can be hazardous. Leave the fis...

This wine's suggested retail price is $14, but we found it for $9.91. Healdsburg Ranches is a proudly "unoaked Chardonnay," wh...

Maybe it's because we're reporters by training, maybe it's just because we're nosy, but we're always interested in how o...

When we first started putting the "fine" in our cooking, we relied on a few classic cookbooks. We started off with the Irma Rom...

Our neighbor Teresa Bobbitt is thrifty, creative, and resourceful—a master of cheap eating. She’s developed a salad dressing that varies in ...

Suddenly, Julia Child is everywhere , and we couldn't be happier. Like many food lovers, we discovered Mastering the Art of French Cook...

We were happy to open our CSA box this week and see a big bushy head of kale sitting atop the scallions, potatoes, and corn. For a long tim...

We almost hesitate to mention this enthusiastic recommendation from Wine Spectator for value buy of the week, because the editors tend to p...

One of our favorite blogs is  The Perfect Pantry , which features indispensable, intriguing, and occasionally oddball ingredients, along wi...

Our regular "Anonymous" commenter dropped a challenge on all of us in reacting to the Clean-Out-The-Fridge Slaw post: How about s...

OK, we'll admit it. Tim bought this wine because of the bicycle on the label. Still nursing the clavicle injury from his last ride, he...