Food & Drink

For more than 30 years, Gambero Rosso, arguably the leading wine publication in Italy, has been publishing Vini d’Italia, a guide to that country’s wines in each year. This guide is a herculean work, as it represents the work of the Gambero Rosso team that taste over 46,000 wines from a specific year and then

Sunday isn’t a typical day for a post in this column, and I don’t typically post about book reviews that are outside the category of wine. But today offers a unique opportunity for weekend reading with the special twist of a chapter about wine in a book about food, restaurants and redemption. Erin French, the

When you think of Swiss cheese, you think of holes. But Gruyère, which has a smooth texture, is the most produced and most consumed cheese within Switzerland. Gruyère cheese is a component of a classic Swiss fondue, along with European dishes like quiche and croque monsieur. The cheese has a long heritage. Records of cheesemaking

“This is not a wine I would have pulled off the shelf for myself.” That was one of the observations voiced this week during a consumer wine tasting I led, virtually, for a financial services company. It was said with surprise and sincerity, and hearing the comment crystallized several points that have been percolating in

In the multibillion-dollar battle to create the next White Claw, THC in a can has all the buzz. And Ellen DeGeneres just made this “weed drink” famous. When Jake Bullock and Luke Anderson worked together as consultants at Bain & Co. in 2014, they argued over cannabis. While neither had been big pot smokers, they saw

For Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards’s all-female wine production team, Earth Day is every day. “We have a holistic way of looking at sustainability,” says Zidanelia Arcidiacono, Pinot Noir winemaker for Sonoma-Cutrer. Arcidiacono not only makes the winery’s award-winning Pinot Noir, but she also is in charge of the winery’s sustainability program. This Sonoma winery not only produces “certified sustainable”

Whether it’s women, pot or just boozing it up for breakfast, if you can wrap a beer fest around it, Hop Culture will find a way to do it. Now, the beer-lifestyle brand behind Beers With(out) Beards, 420 Craft Beer Festival and Juicy Brews Saturday Morning is hosting what appears to be the first significant

You won’t find New Realm Brewing on the Brewers Association’s list of the 50 largest craft breweries in America. In fact, you can’t even find the company’s beer outside of Georgia, Virginia, one coastal market in North Carolina and soon, South Carolina. However, the Atlanta-based beer company – which over the last several months has

The kind of stars Washington, D.C. traditionally respects are the ones found on a flag or a military uniform. But the nation’s capital also has a bright culinary constellation and the Michelin Guide just released its annual ranking of the city’s finest restaurants, after a pandemic-induced hiatus. The guide itself will be completely virtual by way

Online grocery platform Misfits Market, founded in 2018 by Under 30 honoree Abhi Ramesh, announced today that it has raised a $200M Series C, thus becoming a unicorn (the company didn’t disclose the post-round valuation). The funding round was co-led by Accel and D1 Capital, with participation by existing investors including Valor Equity Partners, Greenoaks

As demand for plant-based meats continued to grow over the past year, companies feeding that demand kept on developing new products despite the pandemic. The parent of plant-based meat brands Lightlife and Field Roast is debuting new products at Whole Foods Market WFM stores across the country this month. Greenleaf Foods, a subsidiary of Canadian

Global wine consumption fell only 3% during 2020, according to the OIV in Paris, in their annual state of industry report today. The decline was primarily due to the impact of Covid, reported Pau Roca, Director General of the OIV, who compared it to the impact of the 2008 financial crisis. However, the vast differences

For 20 years, World’s 50 Best celebrated the hospitality industry with annual rankings of the finest restaurants and bars on the planet. Now the UK-based organization is looking for future stars in the gastronomical galaxy with a new list—50 Next. And if this inaugural list is any indication, the future is looking mighty bright and quite diverse—much more so

Is it strange for a wine writer to cover the topic of alcohol free (or AF) beverages, as in wine, beer and spirits “alternatives”? It may have been strange, a year and a half ago. But today, with the burdens of thirteen-plus months of the global pandemic weighing heavily on us all, the “alternatives” have

Singapore is racing to build a global epicenter of meat alternatives by encouraging more companies from overseas to launch in the city-state with fresh investments.  The alt-protein development has been on local government’s radar after realizing an urgent need to create a more self-reliant food ecosystem as Singapore currently imports over 90% of its food. 

Sometime around Easter, my friends’ questions start to trickle in: Are there any new bourbons this year for the Kentucky Derby? Are there any special limited-release bottles to consider? And my favorite—are there good value buys that I should be thinking about? In short: Yes, yes, and obviously yes. And this year is no different. Everyone wants

As the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to reverberate across the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has taken steps to expand food stamp eligibility for those most at risk of hunger. As part of a “profound change” to the federal nutrition programs, the USDA has announced it is now providing $1

For over a year now, major events have been put on hold or altered significantly to meet safety requirements. And the same is true for one of May’s most anticipated affairs: The Kentucky Derby. Though the 147th running will happen on the traditional first Saturday in May this year, the number of reserved seats is

April won’t be the cruelest month if you have these humorous wine books on hand Lots of literary folks know it’s National Poetry Month but who knew it was also National Humor Month? Happily, I did. (LOL!) Any wine writer worth their weight has heavy tomes about the subject—Jancis Robinson’s Wine Grapes, the Oxford Companion

Manny’s Cafeteria & Delicatessen is a Jewish deli in Chicago’s South Loop famous for its corned beef sandwiches. The deli is known for its Jewish food, including pastrami, latkes, and matzo ball soup. Founded more than 75 years ago, Manny’s has been passed down through four generations of the Raskin family, which continues to own