Food & Drink

As we become increasingly aware of how factory farmed meat consumption impacts the planet, animal well-being and our own health, more and more people are seeing the benefits of transitioning to a plant-based diet.  The number of plant-based food and drink products in the US more than doubled between 2012 and 2018, according to consumer research company

Rows of wine grapes at Spring Valley Vineyard, with rolling hills and wheat fields in the distance; Walla Walla region of eastern Washington. .#2443-1129. (Photo by: Greg Vaughn /VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images In early to mid-nineteenth century England something began to kill grapevines. By 1863, the

Boba, or bubble tea, is a popular Taiwanese drink with flavors like taro, honeydew, mango, and lychee. These shops take serving boba to a whole new level with their brilliant creations — from the boba mimosa to milk tea topped with cotton candy. —————————————————— #BubbleTea #TaiwaneseDrink INSIDER is great journalism about what passionate people actually

Traditional supermarkets continue to lose their share of Americans’ food and consumables budget. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) Getty Images On American consumers’ grocery shopping list, there’s one item that’s increasingly missing: traditional supermarkets.  Those stores’ share of U.S. food and consumable products consumption last year dropped 2.5 percentage points to 35% of the $1.25

Miller Lite’s trivia game, in collaboration with Vatom Labs, utilizes blockchain and a type of digital token. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) Getty Images Miller Lite jumped on the blockchain train last month, using the technology for its trivia game, made possible through a collaboration with startup Vatom Labs. The cell phone-based game rewards of-age

Acumen Edcora Vineyard, Atlas Peak, Napa Valley Photo courtesy Acumen Every year, it seems, a new winery opens in Napa Valley. Often this is a big occasion, as someone or some corporation with deep pockets purchases a few ideally situated vineyards, hires a talented winemaker and sets off on what they hope will be start

The Mac Factory in Camden Market, London serves on mac ‘n’ cheese. Even though the restaurant makes just six types of mac ‘n’ cheese, it goes through 30 tons of cheddar a year! All flavors—ranging from chorizo and mushroom to pesto—are topped with parmesan and thyme crumble. See more from the Mac Factory: http://www.themacfactory.co.uk/ FOOD

BAAR BAAR offers unique takes on traditional dishes. Courtesy of Liz Clayman. Liz Clayman In Manhattan’s East Village, modern Indian gastropub BAAR BAAR is reimagining Indian cuisine.  “The majority of traditional Indian restaurants you visit tend to have a very formal undertone, and we wanted to create a restaurant that was more playful and less

With drive-thru a critical battleground for McDonald’s, the fast food giant has agreed to buy a two-year-old conversational voice tech startup. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Getty Images Your drive-through experience at McDonald’s may be about to get more pleasant. The fast food giant said Tuesday it agreed to buy two-year-old Silicon Valley conversational voice-based startup Apprente,

Anita Sumer bakes these beautifully decorated loaves of sourdough bread. She either cuts patterns into the dough or uses a stencil. Sumer like to experiment with different flour and also holds international baking workshops. You can find her Instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/sourdough_mania/ —————————————-­­­­———- Follow BI UK on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1Nz3jG3 Follow BI UK On Facebook: http://bit.ly/1VWDkiy

Wendy’s will launch a new breakfast menu across its U.S. system in 2020. Wendy’s On Monday, Wendy’s announced plans to launch a breakfast menu across its nearly 6,000-unit U.S. system in 2020. The company is taking a big ($20 million) bet on the launch with plans to hire 20,000 employees and offer other franchisee support.

LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 27: Producer Sean Combs (R) and Actor Mark Wahlberg (L) announce a new business venture on February 27, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic) FilmMagic The Alkaline Water Company Inc (NASDAQ: WTER), the famed bottled water brand loved by the likes of Beyoncé and Mark Wahlberg, has

We tried the world’s spiciest curry, the red hot curry at Brick Lane Curry House in NYC. The curry is phaal, a British-Indian curry made with peppers. Brick Lane uses six to eight of the spiciest chilis in the world to make their phaal, making it 10,000 tiems hotter than tabasco sauce. FOOD INSIDER believes

By Judy Colbert, Next Avenue Contributor In the classic I Love Lucy episode, Lucy’s Italian Movie, Lucille Ball brought her audience to tears of laughter as she stomped grapes while visiting a winery. Well, grape-stomping hasn’t been allowed as part of the wine production process in the U.S. since late in the 20th century, but

Liz Marek makes super realistic cakes from scratch. For nine years she’s been making incredibly detailed cakes that take days to finish. Every year she goes through about 1,000 pounds of cake and buttercream. See more from Liz Marek: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOWNzgrecZUTB9aWlxh5SYg https://www.facebook.com/sugargeekshow/ https://www.instagram.com/sugargeekshow/ FOOD INSIDER believes life should be a delicious adventure. Subscribe to our channel:

A British teen’s diet consisted of fries, Pringles, white bread, processed ham slices, and sausage. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Getty Not everyone may see the risks of a junk food diet. Here’s a case of a British teen who had trouble seeing because he ate too much junk food and

Dean & DeLua’s Soho store in New York is still open, but others have closed as it struggles with debt. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP For the last few months, Dean & DeLuca’s gourmet shops have been dwindling from the food scene. Stores in California, Washington, D.C., and New York are gone,

Kamehameha Bakery in Honolulu, Hawaii makes purple doughnuts with poi to give them a Polynesian twist. FOOD INSIDER believes life should be a delicious adventure. Subscribe to our channel: http://insder.co/Food and visit us at: https://thisisinsider.com FOOD INSIDER on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foodinsider FOOD INSIDER on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisinsiderfood/ FOOD INSIDER on Twitter: https://twitter.com/insiderfood

A CEO’s mindset is visible in their words and actions. Investors, employees and other stakeholders pay attention to executive mindsets so they can determine whether to trust these leaders. Watching the U.S. Open tennis matches recently, I saw that tennis champion mindsets are equally visible. Two months ago, this was highlighted at the Men’s Singles

A vineyard planted next to a cannabis field (unseen) on the outskirts of Deir al-Ahmar in the Bekaa Valley, one of the poorest regions in Lebanon and notorious for its cannabis production, on October 3, 2017. Lebanon’s Coteaux Heliopolis cooperative AFP/Getty Images This morning a colleague, Meg Maker asked on Twitter if wine writers and