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Meet Jane Goldman, Founder of CHOW.com
Jane Goldman is the founder and general manager of CHOW.com, the groundbreaking online food destination whose content, video, and design have won awards including the James Beard, Webby, Telly, and...
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In Paris, Ghosts of Bistros Past
First night on our Paris vacation, we eat at Au Passage in the 11th arrondissement. It’s a bistrot à vin, a modern wine bar with small plates, which looks like some old tabac (tobacco...
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I Hate My Gas Grill, and Use It All the Time
This weekend, as I pull the cover off my propane barbecue and scrape last week’s carbon residue from the grill bars, I know how I’ll feel. Compromised. Because, while the propane grill marked a huge...
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Blacked Out in Tokyo: Richie Nakano’s Japan Chronicles, Part 1
Blacked Out in Tokyo Richie Nakano's Japan Chronicles, Part 1 As he gets ready to open his own restaurant in San Francisco, a pop-up ramen chef spent two weeks in Japan. Turns out everything Richie...
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Stiff Medicine: Chartreuse Elixir Végétal
Could Elixir Végétal be America's next great cult cocktail ingredient? It tastes like—well, let’s say a scrubby sub-Alpine hillside; comes in a bottle small enough to sit on a shelf in your medicine...
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Meet the Intern: Austin Pohlen
CHOW.com is happy to welcome Austin Pohlen to our Video Team! Austin assists on shoots as well as behind the scenes in both preproduction and postproduction phases. Debuting this fall, Austin stars in...
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6 Unexpected Ways to Show Off Watermelon
As if to advertise summer itself, supermarkets all over America flaunt pool-size cardboard watermelon bins out front. Sure the fruit they’re heaped with is an emblem of summer picnicking, but how...
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Behind the Recipe: The Spread of Speculoos
Was it in the 1990s—on a flight I otherwise can’t remember—when I first cracked the opaque plastic wrapper on the pair of thin cookies? They looked as drab as infant teething biscuits, but tasted like...
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Sarah DiGregorio Revisits Foie Gras
One thing California is not these days is laid-back. The foie gras ban that legislators passed in 2004 takes effect on July 1, and for the past few months activists on both sides have unleashed an...
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Pin Your Favorite CHOW Recipes, Win a Dream BBQ!
CHOW is excited to announce our first-ever Pinterest sweepstakes! We're giving away a $100 Visa gift card and three $50 gift cards to four lucky winners. We want to see your dream barbecue including...
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How to Make Your Gas Grill Burn Hotter
How to Make Your Gas Grill Burn Hotter Before summer technically even began, I had conflicted feelings about my liquid propane grill. It’s handy, but only an imperfect substitute for high-temperature...
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Backyard Beaujolais: Régnié sur Granite
Somebody mentions Beaujolais and you might think of that pink juice-box stuff that hits the market every year at Thanksgiving. But that’s Beaujolais Nouveau, which is to regular Beaujolais what...
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Craig Claiborne Had Balls
For a guy whose life was wrapped in the fiction of bachelorhood and whose death proved so deeply lonely, Craig Claiborne managed to father a hell of a lot of children. Not actual kids (Claiborne was...
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As American as Steamed Rice
As the nation pauses on July 4th to cook burgers on backyard cart grills and jockey for prime spots on the lawn to glimpse hazy fireworks shows, it’s time to acknowledge the truth: We are a nation...
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Cantina Bell: Taco Bell’s Chipotle Wannabe Is Weak
Downscale Chipotle with Latina-chef branding: That’s my takeaway after sampling Taco Bell’s Cantina Bell menu, which launched today. The compact line of burrito bowls, cheeseless burritos, and chips...
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Make-Ahead Car Camping Recipes
Camping food is best when it's kept simple, but that doesn't mean it has to be boring. The CHOW Test Kitchen has developed a few recipes that'll give your camp food some flair but are still really...
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The Diss, Updated: Calling Asian Food “Hipster”
Asian is America’s takeout food, the stained box of kung pao in the nation’s culinary fridge. It was that way in the 1960s; it’s like that today, still, despite huge demographic shifts. Why, in 2012,...
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Why Does Ketchup on a Hot Dog Piss People Off?
When we made this CHOW Tip video about spiral-cut hot dogs, the last thing we thought we’d do is make some of you mad. But the sight of Senior Video Producer Blake Smith squirting a squiggly line of...
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Win Cool Kitchen Swag on CHOW’s “The Talk” Gadget Giveaway!
CBS’s daytime show The Talk is an essential source for information on the stuff America is talking about. This week, CHOW.com and The Talk are teaming up for a Gadget Giveaway sweepstakes that’ll...
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Eva Longoria’s Opening a Steakhouse for Women
It launches New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas (site of Longoria's ill-fated Beso restaurant and Eve nightclub), with a name—SHe—that reads like some sort of caps-lock fail. SHe won’t be a place devoted to...
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