Food & Drink

Ever since the Montage Healdsburg rolled out the red carpet for hotel guests in the heart of Sonoma in 2021, the ante was instantly upped on service and hospitality in California Wine Country, not to mention dining and design. At the time, the first seeds had been planted on the real estate side with 40

Salt water taffy was developed in the late 1800s by Joseph Rowling in Atlantic City. Truth is this taffy has no salt water in it, and instead got its name from its proximity to beach waters, which obviously contain salt. Stores can run about 2,000 pounds of taffy a day. The process starts with corn

Once a sugar plantation and an industrial guava farm, Common Ground, on 80 acres of land tucked into a Kilauea neighborhood on Kaua’i’s North Shore, is a veritable regenerative agro-forest whose team dreams of creating a model for the “farm of the future.” Common Ground opened in 2018 as a “creative campus” intended to be

Though the whisky industry is more inclusive than ever before, fewer than 8% of distilleries in the U.S. are owned and operated by women. Regardless, dozens of hard-working women have helped build some of the brands we love and drink today. Defying the status quo and using their talents to revolutionize the industry, they have

For years, Giada De Laurentiis has been sharing her secrets to making delicious food. From her Emmy award-winning Food Network shows to her New York Times bestselling cookbooks, De Laurentiis has brought us into her kitchen to share her love for Italian and California-style cooking. But what if you could have Giada in your own

London’s dining scene rivals any city in the world with its vast range of international restaurants. In addition to a new Soho restaurant excelling in Modern British cuisine, other new launches in the capital include the first outpost for an American seafood favorite, a second venture for a brilliant young Tel Aviv chef and a

We are less than a month out from the 2023 iteration of the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. The annual extravaganza convenes in the Bay Area between April 13th through the 15th and the results of the judging will begin trickling out on its website shortly thereafter. But today we’re looking back at what the

Half of the honey imported into the European Union, is suspected of being adulterated with sugar syrups, according to an investigation by European officials published on Thursday. The research, spearheaded by the European Commission’s Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC), revealed that 46% of the 320 samples of imported honey – taken

Following an unprecedentedly bad avian influenza season in the US, in combination with higher operating costs, egg prices have hit the roof. Some believe that reports of a crisis have been, well, over-egged. But it’s clear that the situation has hit many farmers, food businesses, and consumers hard, in a number of countries. One beneficiary

Résonance Vineyard, owned by Résonance Wines in Oregon’s Yamhill Carlton AVA, is rare. Certainly from the looks of it — situated in the beautiful rolling hills of the Willamette Valley, surrounded by old oaks dripping with sage-colored lichen — one can tell this is a special and well-cared-for place. But one of the most interesting

Two-Michelin-starred chef Tom Sellers (of Restaurant Story) has announced he’ll be partnering with Bang & Olufsen to launch a foodie pop-up unlike any other this April. For two weeks only, the visionary new pop-up will take over interior specialist Smallbone’s Luxury Pavilion in Knightsbridge and turn it into an uber-luxe cinema and restaurant. Following welcome

“How long will inaction define us,” ponders Dr. Agnes Kalibata. The Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the 2021 Food Systems Summit has joined me via Zoom to discuss the future of agriculture in Africa. I immediately pick up on her frustration with the inability of rich nations to follow through on emissions

Fruits and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet providing vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, dietary fiber and other benefits. They can also be quite delicious. Nutrition experts agree that many Americans should eat more of these foods, but that can be challenging for those with a busy lifestyle. But another reason that consumers hesitate

Scientists have unearthed more information on the origins of wine, using genomics to discover that grapevines were first domesticated simultaneously in two separate regions of the world around 11,000 years ago © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes The earliest archaeological evidence for viticulture and wine drinking was unearthed around 8,000 years ago in

The Gumi Shuka, or GUM Market, is a large indoor market in Yerevan, Armenia, that tourists can visit. Locals come to the shuka to sell fresh and dried fruit like dried apricots and t’tu lavash, or fruit leather. You can also find walnut sujuk, basturma, lavash bread, herbs and spices, and a variety of meats

Mexico City-born chef Pati Jinich, an award-winning cookbook author and television host based in Washington, D.C., talks about the longevity of her PBS show, her latest projects and what it means to be a Mexican in the U.S., and shares her pairing suggestions for tequila and Mexican cuisine. Claudia Alarcón: So, you’re starting the 12th

Passover starts the evening of Wednesday, April 5. And the midweek holiday may call for outsourcing some cooking. New York City restaurants are on it, with modern, diverse and exciting menus incorporating Passover traditions and the option for guests to lead their own traditional seders. Though the menus aren’t strictly kosher, they’re all kosher for

Western society’s long term strategy to deal with its staggering output of trash has been to establish infrastructure to gather, transport, and dispose of it in landfills. While that is a far better outcome than the rampant environmental contamination that continues in many parts of the world, landfill capacity is finite and the organic waste

What do you do when you are suddenly tasked with taking over the family farm? Locals know it as the farm with the little grass shack next to Pearlridge. Sumida Farm, a 95-year-old watercress farm on Oʻahu, that most locals toured in elementary school, is bordered by the retail stores, restaurants and parking lots of

Sushirrito, a San Francisco-based restaurant that has four brick-and-mortar locations and 10 as part of a licensing agreement with Local Kitchens, a micro food hall, specializes in burrito-sized sushi with Japanese and Latino influences. But it expanded too quickly in the same geographic area and was forced to close three of its four San Francisco