Food & Drink

Futuristic architecture reflects a new attitude about wine The wine region of Rioja in northern Spain is a terrific example of what’s old is new again. At 96 years old, she is the oldest Designation of Origin (DOC) in the country. But the current generation of winemaking rebukes that dusty image, making Rioja a hot

Farting is definitely not the worst thing that can happen when you have a lot of gas. In fact, farting may be the best thing. A case report published in the medical journal Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. showed how gas build-up in your intestines can be silent and deadly. In the case

Manchego cheese is made in a part of Spain that is called La Mancha, which is just south of Madrid. Evidence of cheesemaking in this region dates to the Bronze Age. We visited Finca La Granja, a fifth-generation family farm that’s been making cheese since the 19th century. The dairy makes about 65 wheels of

Antiquum Farm near Junction City, in Oregon’s south Willamette Valley, brings to mind a place from a storybook. The Farm Cottage tasting room echoes thatched roofs of rural Ireland. The Kune Kune pigs lounging at the edges of the vineyard elude a satisfied sense of contentment. Maremmas breed livestock guardian dogs pose a confident sense

Scusi! Move over, France because Italy is coming after your cheese lovers! Italian cheese used to be somewhat of an obscurity—or defined only by its most popular entrants on the international market: Parmesan and mozzarella. Fine cheeses and those produced by local makers were closely held secrets or the domain of established restaurants, says New

Experience a variety of coffee cultures and see how it is made and served differently around the world. In Turkey, coffee is brewed in hot sand. In Sweden and Finland, cheese curds are added into cups of coffee. MORE COFFEE CONTENT: Inside The World’s Biggest Starbucks In Japan Why This Coffee Costs $75 A Cup

In 2019, American Airlines passengers in first or business class could enjoy such specialties as James Beard award-winning chef Sarah Grueneberg’s spinach and ricotta rotolo, mushroom bolognese and artichoke ravioli either in-flight, or at the Flagship Lounge at Chicago’s O’ Hare International Airport. It marked the latest partnership between the airline and the James Beard

Why pay a dietitian hundreds of dollars a session to tell you what to eat when you could just take yourself to dinner at Philadelphia’s latest show-stopping restaurant … one that offers menu suggestions based on your body type? At what appears to be the first high-end Ayurvedic herbal eatery of its kind, patrons of

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

There’s yet another Salmonella outbreak, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is calling it a “Salmonella Outbreak with Unknown Food Source.” The outbreak has already left at least 279 people ill and 26 hospitalized in 29 states. Now, typically, when you ask, “where did you get this food,” and someone responds, “an

To be clear: There are many very compelling wines in Sonoma right now in addition to the four that I describe below. These four do, however, take the pulse of Sonoma’s current goings-on. They are the wine equivalent of catching someone’s eye from across a crowded room. And, as I wrote in Part One of

Papaya King has cemented itself as a cheap-eat institution in NYC. But before it became a New Yorker’s go-to for hot dogs, it sold something else entirely. Insider’s Taryn Varricchio headed to Papaya King to find out why New Yorkers flock to the 80-year-old location for its hot dog and tropical drink combo. For more

Ready for some weekend wine? See if you can find these Sonoma wines (or, if not, their producers) on wine lists, restaurant shelves or online. They were four of the most compelling wines I tasted recently, when I visited northern California for the Sonoma County Wine Auction. 2018 Fort Ross Vineyard Pinot Noir from Gary

As the sun began to rise and shine its rays of warmth on the hot southern coast of Iran, a Range Rover started to drive towards the cooler areas of the country before the heat started to accumulate. In the backseat with his sleeping bag was a young civil engineer, Darioush Khaledi, who had started

In New Orleans, many people grow up eating beignets. And if they aren’t enjoying them at home, they’re likely heading to Café du Monde in the French Quarter for a fresh plate served hot from the fryer. The café is the indisputable source of NOLA’s most famous beignets, which, after more than a century, remain

Life isn’t easy for creatures at the top of the food pyramid. Louise Shimmel, executive director of Cascades Raptor Center — a nature center and wildlife hospital in Eugene, Oregon — understands this reality well. She says that raptors sometimes find their way into the hospital due to starvation, but the majority of cases are

The producer of the nation’s first African-American beer festival is still waiting on the launch of an investigation more than a week after he and others say the general manager of Pittsburgh’s franchise of the international Hofbrauhaus brewery/beer garden chain verbally abused his vendors with racist language and potentially caused the peaceful fest to shut

The Halal Guys first came to the streets of New York City in 1990, when the three founders opened up a hot-dog cart in Midtown. They realized there was a demand from Muslim cab drivers looking for a halal meal, so they began serving American halal food from the cart. The Arabic term halal means

“Keto” was the most Googled food-related term in 2020. Within the bars, cereals, baking mixes, cookies and snacks category, dollar sales have grown over 21% in the past year. People on ketogenic diets avoid carbohydrates and sugar, and consume large amounts of protein, attempting to drive their bodies into a ketogenic state, which some believe

Sixteen months after laying off half its workforce, restaurant software firm Toast completed a whirlwind turnaround Wednesday when it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange at a $20 billion valuation. Shares of the Boston-based company were priced at $40, and opened at $65.26, a dramatic rise from initial forecasts for Toast, which earlier