The LC Book Club takes on A Tiger in the Kitchen by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan. Join us, and author Tan, for online Twitter chats November 5 and 9.

Fearing the great six-year-old mafia knocking on your door this Halloween? David offers a way you and the kids can make out like bandits.

Sweet solutions to stubborn problems. That’s a motto our managing editor loves—and the reason she’s head over hand-mixer for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer.

In Paris, everything looks like dessert. Or so sees Susan Hochbaum, who finds her muse in sweet sculptures of butter, cream, and sugar at every turn.

In Paris, David finds pastries, passion, and peace. Think of it as an emotional travelogue with dining recommendations.

Carol Penn-Romine long considered the first daughter her nemesis. The reason has everything to do with overcooked okra and a distaste for turnips.

Mark Scarbrough and Bruce Weinstein had hoped for a quiet, rustic dinner in the French countryside. Thanks to this storied liqueur, what they ended up with was far, far more memorable.

Is too much of a good thing really wonderful? We asked doughnut diva Jess Thomson, who just wrote a cookbook on the topic. Here’s what she says.

The TV dinner, that icon of mid-century American life, offered Renee and David two disparate experiences: Freedom and disappointment.

When the consummate chocolate chip cookie goes gluten-free, Renee does a little happy dance–and explains why she thinks you will, too.

How to pack your child’s lunch with panache? Eco-friendly Bazura Bags, crafted in the Philippines by underprivileged women, bring more than a little elan to any midday meal. Allison explains.

Hunter Hank Shaw has had in his sights pretty much everything that flies, runs, crawls, or swims. Here he explains the exquisite lure of dove.

Nothing against burgers and brats, but sometimes you crave something a little less expected, something to help you impress a backyard full of folks. Done.

A Fund for Jennie is a non-profit collection to help food blogger Jennifer Perillo, who lost her husband suddenly to a heart attack. Won’t you please give?

Bonal is one of France’s great aperitifs. As Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough learned it’s wielded by les français as an icon of Gallic superiority.

Peace. Love. Granola. We reconsider hippy cooking in light of the principles those tie dye-wearing, tree-hugging concertgoers espoused.

The beloved American doyenne of French cooking expounds upon what she learned during a lifetime cooking and thinking at the stove.

Ice pops have a way of making everything better. Always have. And even though today’s creations bear little resemblance to those of yore, it’s all good.

What’s tomato soup if not art? We share a stack of recipes for the most inspired interpretations we could find, whether hot or cold, plain or posh, comfortingly familiar or mind-bendingly abstract.

Chocolate. Milk or dark? Which reigns supreme? Renee and David go bite for bite defending their sweet corner of the world.