Food & Drink

As someone who writes about alcohol for a living, it’s astonishing how often I now get pitched on products that don’t contain any actual alcohol in them. The reason should be somewhat obvious: the so-called “sober curious” movement is growing by leaps and bounds. This cuts across all segments of booze, spanning beer, wine and

Many people have heard about Fiddlehead Cellars Sauvignon Blanc from one of the most well-known wine movies of all time: Sideways. Dialog between the main characters reveals that the winemaker — that’s industry veteran Kathy Joseph — ages the wine in oak. French oak. (Check out the clip here.) It’s worth a mention in the

Journalist H. L. Mencken described the martini as “the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.” And this ideal cocktail has its own annual day of celebration. World Martini Day, on the third Saturday in June (18 June 2022), is an independently organised global tribute to the martini and for bars, brands and drinkers

American restaurant chain Hooters has been given the green light to open two new UK sites, and it’s caused quite a stir with the locals. The infamous ‘breastaurant’—which trades primarily in chicken wings and revealing uniforms—has been blasted as ‘regressive’ and ‘chauvinistic’ in the wake of two new outposts being approved in Greater Manchester’s Salford

The dream of plant-based chicken, pork and beef appears to be withering. Ross Mackay and Eliott Kessas emigrated from Scotland with a dream. The longtime vegans founded Daring Foods, a meatless chicken-nugget startup, with the aim of reducing unhealthy meat consumption and creating more climate-friendly foods. At first, it caught on. Daring’s nuggets secured shelf

Topline With stocks falling into a bear market this year amid fears that aggressive rate hikes from the Federal Reserve will plunge the economy into a looming recession, top firms on Wall Street are advising investors to stick with stocks that have historically performed well during past downturns, such as consumer and healthcare companies. Key

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin “2022 really is a year where world hunger and the food crisis are front and center,” World Central Kitchen executive director Nate Mook told me earlier this week. Just back from Ukraine, where he has spent the past 120 days feeding hungry refugees and others impacted

Hidden in the streets of Bari, Italy is a small alley where a dozen grannies make fresh pasta by hand every day. They have been there for decades, carrying forward a tradition passed down over generations. Today, Via Arco Basso, the alley where they live and work, has become a rite of passage for tourists

June is Pride Month! And that means many of New York’s restaurants, bars and bakeries are going rainbow. In order to raise awareness for LGBTQ+ causes and organizations and share with the community, many of these multicolored, Pride-themed menu items donate a portion of proceeds to deserving groups. Here’s where to taste a delicious rainbow

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A dozen pallets of meat, two pallets of fresh vegetables, three pallets of fruit. There was fish, pasta, buckwheat and sugar. All on the way to needy families in Ukraine. All destroyed. A Russian missile hit a train near Donetsk, Ukraine, on Wednesday that was transporting

A lot of the promotions for Father’s Day wines are big, bold and, or course, very red. But not all dads like those kinds of wine. . Instead, some dads prefer pink, especially on a hot summer day or with a barbecue, two occurrences that often coincide with Father’s Day. Here’s a roundup of great

Topline The stock market moved higher on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 75 basis points—the largest increase in 28 years, while Fed Chair Jerome Powell also signaled that the central bank could raise rates again by the same magnitude at an upcoming meeting next month. Key Facts Stocks rebounded on Wednesday

Suffolk black ham gets its black crust from its curing process, using molasses, brown sugar, and a local black porter. Soaking the ham in this sweet marinade doesn’t just turn it black; it helps balance the flavors of the ham and breaks away from the salty flavors of hams that are dry-cured using only salt.

A vast majority of U.S. firms in Shanghai are cutting revenue forecasts for 2022 in the wake of “zero-Covid” policies that left much of the international business hub of 26 million people locked down in April and May, according to a new survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. Some 93% of respondents

After being put on the shelf for the last two years as the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards, the culinary Oscars, emerged from under the dark cloud hanging over the event since it was last held in 2019. By offering up its most diverse field of nominees and winners in its 30-year history, it

Little Caesars is the latest chain to take the snap as the official pizza sponsor of the National Football League. The company announced the agreement today, which includes a set of exclusive marketing rights, social media games, new products, new packaging and promotions that will be announced prior to the start of the 2022 season

National Rum Day doesn’t come until August 16, but if your dad likes rum, why not celebrate it a couple months early, i.e., on Father’s Day? Here’s a round-up of some delicious rums to gift your dad. The Rum Cooperative Volume 3, $43.99 Bully Boy Distillers in Boston love rum, and they take the art

Ads for dairy products often talk about cows being happy or contented. That’s not just a marketing angle. Cows produce the most milk and the highest quality milk when they are healthy, feel safe, get plenty of feed they like, get milked when they want to and are neither hot nor cold. The people who

“I need to go to the bathroom!” one of the small kids shouted at Mom and Dad as the family drove from Sonoma to Santa Lucia Highlands in California. But this was not a typical family trip as the mother, Kerith Overstreet, had left a stable career in the medical field to be a winemaker

It’s not news that consumer behaviors changed for good from the Covid-19 pandemic. In the restaurant space, that essentially means off-premise habits like delivery and takeout are here to stay. Consider NPD Group data which shows that digital orders grew by 117% from February 2020 to February 2022. These growth numbers registered despite the easing