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Dishes from new Asian home delivery company Alta foods Alta Foods As Covid-19 restrictions continue, more restaurants are pivoting their businesses to offer nationwide home delivery of complete meals or components in a meal kit. From Pad Thai and butter chicken to spicy Sichuan dishes, here are some of the best home delivery restaurant meals

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 02: Seedlip. Photographed for the Food Section of The Washington Post via … [+] Getty Images in Washington DC. (Tom McCorkle for The Washington Post via Getty Images; food styling by Amanda Soto/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Washington Post via Getty Images Our drinking habits changed drastically over 2020.

Sheep are increasingly being used to avoid pesticides in champagne production–these are in the … [+] Lacourte-Godbillon vineyards in Ecueil, near Champagne, France. AFP via Getty Images It’s been a difficult year for the champagne industry for a number of reasons. Without anything to celebrate during Covid-19, sales of the bubbly plummeted by as much

Hot drink cocktail for New Year, Christmas, winter or autumn holidays. Toddy. Mulled pear cider or … [+] spiced tea or grog with lemon, pear, cinnamon, anise, cardamom, rosemary. getty Monday (January 11th) is officially “National Hot Toddy Day.” While admittedly the fake holidays are a little bogus, a Hot Toddy is anything but. The

Tea is deeply rooted in many cultures. It tends to be more than just a beverage in countries around the world, but a moment of togetherness and connection. From the very first cup of tea, dating back to ancient China in 2732 BC, tea and tea culture have impacted the very way countries socialize. There

Denny’s has had an especially difficult time lately. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education … [+] Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The surge in COVID cases this winter has been unkind to restaurants, but it’s been especially cruel to sit-down chain restaurants. A new report from Placer.ai, which studies

Champagne (unsurprisingly) reigned this New Year’s Eve for North America’s largest alcohol … [+] marketplace getty In one of the most unprecedented New Year’s Eve in memory, what was the nation sipping on? Bubbles, tequila and hard seltzer according to Drizly, North America’s largest e-commerce alcohol marketplace. New Years’ Eve was the biggest night of

Melted Inside, a new online artisan marketplace Melted Inside Melted Inside is a new online marketplace featuring the UK’s finest independent artisan food and drinks makers. Consumers will find it much easier to access some of the country’s top small batch producers who haven’t had wide distribution until now. Makers are carefully selected and invited

Partake Foods founder and CEO Denise Woodard wants to help move the funding needle for other entrepreneurs of color. Courtesy of Partake Foods Ahead of the new year, the For(bes) The Culture community predicted that Black and Brown entrepreneurs would have more access to funding in 2021, with more venture capitalists of color stepping up

A knob of ginger like the one shown here is mixed with water, sugar and a touch of lemon to make a … [+] potent syrup that turns into a DIY Ginger Beer. Using the syrup and sparkling water allows you to customize the ginger flavor in your cocktails and a myriad of other uses.

While plastics blanket the planet, the food and beverage industry is looking at how to make … [+] sustainable packaging– recycling, reusing and (sometimes) replacing plastic. getty Few things are more recognizable than the Coca-Cola bottle, which debuted in 1916 with a sleek design that helped make it an icon. Over the years, its glass

Launched as a neighborhood coffee bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (pictured above), Café Grump now has … [+] eight outlets. Courtesy of Cafe Grumpy    Caroline Bell and her husband Chris Timbrell opened Café Grumpy, a local coffee bar, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on November 13, 2005. They now have eight stores open, mostly in New York

Mark Leong’s From Fabby to Fitty Mark Leong People struggle to be healthy. That’s because they don’t know what it means. “It’s about finding a deeper purpose in what our health truly means to us,” says Leong, co-founder, and CEO of Farmz. “For us to truly take care of our bodies, and to look and

Lee’s Donuts was started by a self-proclaimed “hippie dippy” couple, and their same recipe has been used since 1979. Their signature doughnut is the Honey Dip, which locals and tourists alike love for its melt-in-your-mouth quality. For more, visit: https://www.instagram.com/leesdonuts.ca/ MORE LEGENDARY EATS CONTENT: Why This 95-Year-Old Rainbow Ice Cream Is Chicago’s Most Legendary Dessert

Alicia Silverstone is one of many celebrities backing plant-based food. Andrew Macpherson Macfly Corp As awareness of the benefits of a plant-based diet continues to spread, more celebrities are using their platforms to share their feelings and experiences towards eating for the planet, for animals, and for their health. This includes putting their name on

Professional food developers rely heavily on R&D and innovation centers outfitted with lab benches, pilot plant equipment, consumer research facilities (i.e. for focus groups), and a wealth of other physical resources. But that’s not all. Multidisciplinary teams also frequently huddle over a lab bench to review product iterations and brainstorm ideas. All of this changed with

Do you remember what was so top of mind for wine lovers at this time last year? Tariffs. As in, the tariffs that had been proposed later in 2019 by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) that threatened to levy up to 100 percent on European wines. We “got away” with 25 percent tariffs, most

Old Bushmills. Distillery. Bushmills. County Antrim. Northern Ireland. (Photo by: Carlo … [+] Morucchio/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Did someone say, “free whiskey?” Indeed. In fact, its not just anyone making the offer, but Bushmills—one of the planet’s primary producers of the brown spirit. The legendary Irish brand

Kora, a bakery in Queens, is known for doughnuts filled with traditional Filipino flavors. Kimberly Camara runs Kora out of her small apartment where she, her boyfriend, her mom, and some extended family work tirelessly each week to pump out over 500 donuts to eager customers. While the doughnut flavors change week to week, the

SAYULA, MEXICO – MARCH 11: A ‘jimador’ cuts the blue agave later used to distil and produce Tequila … [+] on March 11, 2020 in Sayula, Mexico. Tequila companies are still producin amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Alfredo Martinez/Getty Images) Getty Images “When times are good, people drink. When times are bad, they drink