- For those of you with New Year's resolutions to eat more healthfully, find out what "unsung superfoods you should be eating," from grapefruit and beets to seaweed and chia seeds.
- It was a meaty year in the Chicago Tribune's food section. Check out their favorite -- and more than a little carnivorous -- recipes of 2009, from homemade piri-piri sauce to whiskey-braised pork.
- Appreciate the luxury of "snowy days, warming dinners" with this winning concoction of butternut squash lasagna, with sweet sausage and Parmesan. Combat the cold with something "meaty, cheesy and warm."
- A truly good drink doesn't need alcohol to up its popularity -- mocktails like this Ginger Fizz work are just as spirited without the addition of booze.
- From pig for prosperity to the Southern tradition of eating poor to ensure a prosperous New Year, muse upon the international New Year's food traditions.
- In the persistent pursuit of eating local, some animal rights groups claim that backyard chicken farmers have gone too far.