Food & Drink

You may keep an eye out for your city’s Restaurant Week every year, but have you heard of Black Restaurant Week? Founded in 2016 by Warren Luckett, Falayn Ferrell, and Derek Robinson, Black Restaurant Week is dedicated to celebrating African-American, African, and Caribbean cuisine through culinary events and promotional campaigns. This year, their calendar is

I have long cooked with booze.  It makes everything taste better and adds layers of flavor to foods from sweet to savory.  From my repertoire, there are dishes that I make over and over again.  One of them is a chunky applesauce that is spiked with Cognac and finished with a smidge of butter for richness. It

If you look closely at a package of Wana Brands fast-acting cannabis gummies, you’re likely to notice that the product is certified as kosher. In fact, all of Wana’s products that are manufactured in Colorado have been certified by Whole Kosher Services, a company based in Houston. It is commonly understood that kosher refers to

Frozen custard is usually made with more egg yolk and butterfat than ice cream. Wisconsin’s dairy farms make the state an ideal home for the dessert. MORE REGIONAL EATS VIDEOS: How Traditional Italian Gelato Is Made | Regional Eats How French Baguettes Are Made In Paris | Regional Eats —————————————————— #Custard #RegionalEats #FoodInsider Insider is

Nearly a decade ago, Josh Tetrick was crashing on the couch in his friend Jill’s studio apartment, experimenting with plant-based ingredients in his quest to replace conventional eggs with a more sustainable option.  Tetrick spent his days testing ingredients using microwaveable muffin cups from Target TGT , cooking one experiment after another and comparing the

It is no secret that a woman’s work is often hidden work. While women are an essential part of the mezcal supply chain, their work is often hidden. This is common across agricultural supply chains around the world. In honor of International Women’s Month, here is a list of the top mezcal brands and production

Nuro, the Mountain View, California, autonomous delivery startup, announced a new investment round from Chipotle and Woven Capital, a venture fund owned by Toyota Motor Corp. So we could see burritos delivered by Nuro’s R2 delivery wagons in the not-too-distant future. Last November Nuro said it raised $500 million from a group that included T.

Another Easter Sunday in semi-quarantine. While New York has all but transformed itself with sidewalk seating and streeteries throughout the boroughs, takeout is still the safest, and most weather-reliable option to celebrate Easter Sunday. Plan ahead for Sunday, April 4 with these excellent New York City Easter takeout meals. Concord Hill Chef Guy Kairi at

From the moment Beale’s Brewery’s latest release, YOUR MANAGER IS BITCH (YMIB), hit the social media superhighway and went viral, it proved yet again one fact that is integral to craft beer success. That consumers want to feel a personal connection to their brands. Making a statement using their beer labels, the billboard to their

Krispy Kreme wants to glaze over the fact that you got the Covid-19 vaccine. On Monday, March 22, Krispy Kreme stores began offering a free “Original Glazed” doughnut to anyone who can present his or her Covid-19 Vaccination Record Card. In other words, if you can provide this proof that you got the Johnson &

Ballast Point Brewing announced both good and bad news Tuesday, and your reaction may depend heavily on where you live. If you’re a fan of the San Diego-based brewery in the Midwest, you’ll likely be disappointed to learn that the Chicago brewpub that was supposed to close just temporarily in October because of COVID-19 will

Winemaker Kathleen Inman checks fermentation progress in an egg-shaped tank at Inman Family Wines. Inman Family Wines Winemaker and winery owner Kathleen Inman refers to herself as a “one woman show;” she is the winemaker, vineyard manager, sales director and owner of Inman Family Wines in the Russian River Valley in Sonoma County, California. Inman

Before Shamil Thakrar, co-founder of Dishoom, took London’s restaurant scene by storm, the capital wasn’t short of Indian restaurants. At the high end we already had the likes of Benares and Amaya, while the U.K.’s curry houses had given us chicken tikka masala – which has a strong claim to have supplanted the roast and

 Laura Lazzaroni is a veteran journalist, food writer, and baker who has become an expert at seeking out tastemakers, from her years in New York for La Repubblica’s D magazine, to her position as Features Director of L’Uomo Vogue to co-directing the launch of the Italian edition of Food & Wine magazine, Lazzaroni has had

It has been a year since we stopped traveling due to COVID-19. Many of us have grown eager to go on a trip again and Japanese people are not an exception. But  Japan’s major cities just came out of the state of emergency on March 21, 2021 and the country’s vaccination rate is only 0.3% of the

Here’s a basic problem. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a warning about “Real Water.” Not real water in general but the “Real Water” brand of alkaline water. And the warning is not real good. Do not drink or otherwise put into your body this brand of alkaline water until further notice. That’s

When Dan Kurzrock started pitching his company ReGrained to investors, it was a tough sell. There was the common issue—it was an unknown startup from a relatively unknown twenty-something; the larger obstacle though, was that it was an unknown market.  ReGrained manufactures a patented ingredient, a protein from otherwise wasted nutrients from the malt in

Planning on getting some food from the Mar-a-Lago à la carte Dining Service this weekend? Well, looks like you’ll need to change your plans because Donald Trump’s resort in Florida is having a, drum roll please, Covid-19 outbreak. As they say when you put your nose in an electric socket, shocking, right? If you were hoping

From calorie count to portion sizes, we ordered everything on the UK and US Krispy Kreme menus to find out the big differences between the two. 0:00 Intro 0:11 Portion Sizes 3:04 Nutrition 6:42 Ingredients 10:05 Exclusives 14:15 Fast Food Chemistry Sneak Peek MORE FOOD WARS VIDEOS: US vs UK Dunkin’ | Food Wars US

These days, everywhere you look there seems to be a new use for cauliflower. Often utilized as a gluten-free, low-carb alternative, the versatile, mild-tasting vegetable has gained popularity as cauliflower rice, cauliflower pizza crust, cauliflower gnocchi, mashed cauliflower, and on and on. In 2018, The New York Times NYT documented cauliflower’s ascension, but even since