Food & Drink

There’s a lot to say about April. It starts off with a Fools’ Day. Its showers bring May flowers, some prefer to spend it in Paris, 16th-century English composer Thomas Morley saw it in his mistress’ face. And poet T.S. Eliot famously called it the cruelest month. Which brings us to wine and poetry, because

The sub-minimum wage for tipped American workers came under fresh attack Thursday in what may be its biggest and most direct challenge yet. The One Fair Wage (OFW) nonprofit organization has sued the Darden Restaurant group on Constitutional grounds, claiming the pay practices of the company that owns chains like Olive Garden and The Capital

After a health scare in his life, Jason Karp, started to really study the food that he was putting in his body. That led him to start Hu, a better-for-you snack maker that recently sold to Mondelez. In his latest entrepreneurial venture, Jason is the CEO and co-founder of HumanCo, whose mission is to make living

The folks at Miller Lite knew people were missing bars, but they didn’t expect them to miss them as much as they did. Miller Lite sold out its entire line of Bar Smells candles within less than a day. The candles, which were released in early April, were sold to raise funds for the United

Taco Bell announced the opening of its new Cantina restaurant in the heart of New York City’s Times Square this week. On the surface, this may not seem like a big surprise. Times Square is a coveted location for any business, let alone for one of the biggest restaurant brands in the country with a

Online grocery shopping has grown 230% between February 1 through February 21, 2021—and experts predict the category will only continue to grow. But as consumers increasingly move their grocery routine online, their expectations of the overall shopping experience will change, and scrolling through thousands of products to find what they need will start to feel

The Biden Administration’s discretionary budget request gave agriculture a big step up in funding. Friday’s request called for a 16% increase from the 2021 enacted level, a jump of $3.8 billion to $27.8 billion. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, stated that the discretionary budget would expand broadband access; provide more funds for agricultural research, extension

Human-generated carbon emissions are causing the world’s oceans to become more acidic. Since the start of the industrial revolution, when mankind’s emissions began ramping up, the world’s oceans have already become about 30% more acidic. For shell-building animals in particular, like oysters and snails, ocean acidification’s impacts can be devastating. Marine scientists have suspected for

Kia Damon is many things. She’s an advocate for the Black and LGBTQ+ communities, the first culinary director of feminist food publication Cherry Bombe and an entrepreneur. But first and foremost, she is her family’s chef. Growing up in a big family in Orlando, Florida, Damon found herself in the kitchen at an early age.

It’s been a difficult time for Champagne producers recently, no doubt due to the COVID crisis. Below average sales across the board have been due to several reasons including restaurant closures around the world, and the uncertain economy in many nations. As Champagne is thought of by many as a celebratory beverage, many consumers have

Constellation’s STZ sell-off of its lower-priced wine brands to E&J Gallo seems to be paying off in terms of promoting their “premiumization” strategy in the wine arena. In an earnings call with investors today, President and CEO Bill Newlands reported, “Our retained wine and spirits portfolio, excluding divested brands, delivered net sales growth of 5%

The vast majority of the billionaires on this year’s Forbes list hail from these 10 sectors. There are a record-smashing 2,755 billionaires in the world, according to Forbes’ 2021 World’s Billionaires list. How did they make their mega-fortunes? By doing everything from starting hedge funds and tech companies to breeding pigs and brewing kombucha.  But

Hopscotch, a unique, immersive art experience that opened in San Antonio last fall, announced the launch of a new restaurant incubator series, Hop-Up. The interactive art gallery, created by entrepreneurs Nicole Jensen and Hunter Inman, is currently soliciting proposals for unique pop-up food concepts to be included in its inaugural Hop-Up series benefiting the San

Cellar 503, an Oregon-focused wine club that helps wine lovers discover the state’s many cutting-edge producers, holds the annual Pour Oregon tasting event, which is one of wine’s most compelling explorations of a single state. This year, the event is moving to an online format for the first time, which is sad for those of

Much has been said about ‘Superfoods’ over the past decade, some of it has been positive and some has been controversial but it is a widely held belief today that having some foods with this label in your diet is extremely valuable. A couple who met at university and have built a business that started

If Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe was any indication, dining al fresco was obviously alluring way before 2020. But if the pandemic taught restaurants anything, it’s how to pivot and do things even better—and diners, in turn, have certainly learned how to appreciate their third places more. So for those seeking something beyond a fancy “streetery,” OpenTable—one

Early this week, the Audubon Society, one of the oldest bird conservation organizations in the world, announced that they will be entering into a partnership with the Perdue-owned Panorama Organic Grass-fed Meats which will add almost a million acres to Audubon’s Conservation Ranching Initiative (ACR). “Over the last 50 years, no ecosystem has been more

Spirits from “ghost” distilleries are meant to haunt you. And it’s safe to say that Brora—as one of my five Holy Grail Scotches—haunts me quite a bit. Consider the half-drunk bottle of 35-year-old Brora from 1977 in my kitchen counter, which I expect to last for another 35 years—mainly because replacing it would set me back at

The USDA has just begun its third round of assistance in an effort to help producers weather the pandemic. Applications for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) were briefly halted after the Biden administration put a freeze on all pending and proposed legislations upon entering office for further review. Coined CFAP 2, the application process

Do Americans need to drink more water? A growing list of private equity firms, venture funds, strategics, athletes, and celebrities sure think so. An estimated 75% of Americans suffer from chronic dehydration. To help combat that, there are now several brands marketing better-for-you electrolyte powders, many of them formulated around the World Health Organization’s recipe