Food and Drink

Vegetable gardening is an exercise in patience. Sweet potatoes can take more than 100 days to ripen; some tomato and watermelon varieties require five months. But there are ways to shorten the wait.

Love is always sweeter when expressed with chocolate! Especially on Valentine's Day. Yes, chocolate... And the more ooey-gooey deeply chocolaty, the better. Still, there's no sense overdoing it.

Like a fine romance, the best rose wines are a balancing act — not too sweet, not too heavy and full of flavour.

Whether or not Chinese New Year marks a major event in your life, it's easy to love many of the foods associated with it. Dumplings are a traditional choice for the holiday, which this year begins Feb. 10.

Still think a $5 latte at Starbucks is over the top? Hold on, because now there's an even pricier cuppa Joe to get buzzed about.

TORONTO - Looking for pictures to fire up your tastebuds? A 24-year-old from Toronto may have the answer. Brad Wishen has launched an Instagram account to show off pictures of the most drool-worthy menu items from the city's most popular restaurants.

These noodles are a fun and approachable dish equally good for a busy weeknight or to celebrate Chinese New Year. Asian markets are jammed with many different noodle varieties.

You can call it a peppercorn all you like, but the peppery ingredient that puts the buzz in Sichuan-style cooking actually isn't one. Though it resembles and is used similar to black peppercorns, Sichuan pepper isn't a peppercorn at all.

Chinese New Year is the sort of new year celebration I love.

Looking for a few simple ways to freshen up the go-to dish of the Super Bowl? We cobbled together a mighty tasty basic guacamole, then came up with four ways to turn basic into unbelievably good.