We don't know how many of you eat veggie burgers, but you probably all know somebody who eats them, as Ruth does from time to time. It...

If you're like us, you like a white wine to have some ooomph, so Pinot Grigios tend to be too light and Sauvignon Blancs tend to be a bi...

All changed in the wine world in 1976 when a little-known proprietor of a Paris wine store and adjoining school (the Academy of Wine) stage...

All week we've been eating out of our freezer, and by last night we'd exhausted the leftovers, slightly amazed by how many beans and...

Our friend Sandy is working to draw down her freezer reserves in preparation for the new season of garden produce, and she's wondering ...

For the past week we've been working to "eat down" our pantry and freezer stockpiles. In the course of this, we came across a ...

We have an embarrassing number of cookbooks, on everything from Burmese to cowboy food, but there are only a few we couldn't live wi...

If you are, it's no wonder. Between unsaturated, monosaturated, polyunsaturated, saturated, and the late unlamented trans-fats, it'...

Okay, we admit it: despite our DIY convictions, we still stop at Starbucks and other overpriced coffee shops. But we stop there a lot less t...

As we work to draw down our pantry stockpile , we can't help noticing that we have a lot of rice: basmati, jasmine, sushi, black, brown,...

Ruth admits that vegetarianism has not always been easy. One of the hardest things to give up was tuna, a lunchtime staple since childhood....

The other day we were talking with our friends Sandy and Chuck, who put in a substantial vegetable garden every year. Sandy noted that they ...

One great thing about moving south is that we get more spring and summer—an extra couple of months, in fact. This means more gardening, more...

We've been in the mood for hummus lately, to the point where we had to crack a new jar of tahini. This reminded us of how much we love t...

Most people know that you have to soak dry beans before you cook them. For most beans—black, white, pinto, kidney—a simple overnight soak wo...

Sometimes we wish we could dislike Nigella Lawson, simply for what she has wrought: all those TV cooking shows featuring women in tight swe...

At first glance, roasting seems like a terrible thing to do to a beautiful vegetable like asparagus. Unlike steaming or boiling, which pres...

We knew that Eat Well, Eat Cheap was available on Kindle , but we didn't think too much about it until last Friday, when we noticed that...

Here's why you want to chat up the clerk at your local wine store: Because he or she can lead you to a better wine or lead you away fro...