Stories
CHOW Tip
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How to Make a Quick, Summery Yogurt Sauce Video
With just three ingredients.
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How to Mince Garlic and Ginger Video
A Microplane is much easier to use than a knife.
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How to Make an Easy Miso Marinade Video
A simple rub that makes your meat flavorful and tender.
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How to Quick-Pickle Rhubarb Video
Or any vegetable. And by quick we mean under five minutes.
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How to Hold a Wineglass Video
Hot little hands can ruin it.
Entertaining
Feature
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How to Start Your Own Dive Bar
Be the boss, bouncer, and favorite bartender.
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Pimp My Dive
CHOW’s ultimate product guide for furnishing your dive bar.
Nagging Question
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Can Microwaved Water Explode?
Superheated water means trouble.
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What’s the Best Drink to Order in a Dive Bar?
Some safe bets when the liquor is sketchy.
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Are Whole-Wheat and All-Purpose Flour Interchangeable?
Only if you want dense cakes and cardboardy pie crusts.
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Does the Color of an Egg Yolk Indicate How Nutritious It Is?
Yolks can range from pale yellow to deep orange.
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What Does India Have to Do with India Pale Ale?
It’s where the hopped-up brew first found fame.
Obsessives
Project
Q&A
Supertaster
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Beer-Flavored Sausage: Genius or Travesty?
This week’s mission: bratwurst with beer flavor already inside.
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Huffable Chocolate Video
This week’s mission: no-calorie powdered chocolate in an asthma inhaler–type device.
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Fancy Tonic Water Not Worth the Fancy Price
This week’s mission: fancy-pants imported tonic water and chips made from slow-baked fruit.
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What’s That Coconut Doing in My M&M’s?
This week’s mission: new flavor twists on classic candies.
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Healthy Butter That Actually Tastes Good
This week’s mission: melted white chocolate dessert sauce and butter with olive oil.
Table Manners
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Leaving a Massive Tip
When should you leave more than 20 percent?
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Please Bring an Elaborate Dessert
What’s the right answer to “Can I bring anything?”
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RSVP to My Damn Invite!
How to get your friends to tell you if they’re coming.
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Fork Etiquette
Does using the right utensil even matter anymore?
The Basics
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The Basics: How to Make an Icebox Cake
The easiest, most addictive dessert ever.
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The Basics: How to Make Noodles with Tofu and Peanut Sauce
A quick Asian dinner.
The Juice
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Perfect Summer Reds
Not summer whites or summer rosés.
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The Syrah Boom That Wasn’t
Why do people think this wine sucks? And does it?
