Let it be known that the days before Thanksgiving at Union Square Farmers’ Market are the Lollapalooza of the food geek. The sources of experimentation lie everywhere around you when you step out of ...

The best-tasting food is the kind that comes from your own efforts, because victory tastes oh-so-sweet. Conquer KFC-style fried chicken, smoky barbecue, wood-fired pizza, five-minute bread, and other ...

What? Not done with your holiday shopping? Yeah, neither are we. But we’ve been making lists — and checking them twice — and we’ve got some suggestions for the nice people on your list. Today, Chow ...

Eat Drink Toke Organic Cheetos, Wine Jelly, Sous Vide Salmon, and Other Geek Recipes The Seattle Food Geek shows you how to become a confident, cut-rate kitchen chemist.

It’s one of those ideas that seems inevitable when you hear it: cookbooks based on classic works of science fiction and fantasy. Okay, maybe not quite inevitable, but recipes like Spice-Stuffed ...

Persimmons are an amazing seasonal flavor packed with sweetness and a little fall spice. How do you know whether they’re ripe, and how do you eat them? One type of persimmon is literally inedible ...

Would you trust a computer hacker to cook your dinner? What if the menu included dishes baked with lasers or served up in laboratory test tubes? A high-tech brand of haute cuisine called "molecular ...

Salt is a mineral, but it’s also a unique flavor perceived by our tongue. In a new clip from Mind of a Chef, food scientist Harold McGee explains the wonders of salt and how it interplays with the ...

I am a serious science fiction geek. And while, in the food world, I generally contain my geekery to zombie movie references, Starblazers jokes, Blade Runner allegories and a recent, minor obsession ...

Just call her Farmer Garner. Jennifer Garner told me last night that she tries to keep her family healthy by growing their own food. While Garner and her hubby, Ben Affleck, don't have a full-fledged ...

The rest of August and into early September is prime season for Lancaster County-grown watermelons. It’s time to get some sweet juice on your chin while enjoying a big wide slice. Here’s a cutting ...