Contestants burned their tastebuds off Thursday in Jake's Dixie Roadhouse's hot chicken wing contest featuring the incendiary sauces of chili pepper guru "Mad Dog" David Ashley, president of Ashley Food Co. Inc., a Sudbury-based distributor of Mad Dog sauces and other products.

Boston Beer Company has just released its Samuel Adams Barrel Room Collection, a series of three new beers brewed and bottled exclusively at the Jamaica Plain brewery.

Bruce Surprenant does not like beer. But he loves jams and jellies that are made with craft beers.

Tricking and treating may be all about the kids, but this grown up use for candy corn will give adults yet another reason to raid the little ones' goodie bags.

If you're looking for easy, no-recipe-needed Halloween treats, these creeped out cupcakes are an eerily good choice. In one, a traditional frosted cupcake falls victim to a bat attack. In the other, they take a slimy, almost radioactive, turn.

After the Caymus Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon ($150) was poured into my glass, I toasted Gatsby, then sipped and savored the taste of splendid wine.

The Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival was in full swing and I reveled in it, enjoying myself immensely.

Murky, dark and swampy isn't a description often applied to good food. Except around Halloween, of course, when the swampier the better. And in her holiday specialty magazine, "Martha Stewart Halloween Spirited Celebrations," Stewart delivers frights and flavor.

You've crafted the perfect gruesome or goofy jack-o'-lantern. But what to do with all the glop you scraped out in the process?

Walking into the Cyclorama at the Boston Center of the Arts during a beer festival is almost dizzying.

Beers from Meantime Brewing in London  were inspired by American microbreweries -- founder Alastair Hook thinks we Americans brew traditional styles more accurately than his British counterparts.