Food & Drink

Challenges abound as industrial agriculture is threatened by access to key resources from water to healthy soils. As a devastating and historic drought from Illinois to Texas to California grinds on, sophisticated mapping and data projection bring more bad news: Agricultural areas are among the places in the U.S. experiencing the highest temperature increases. “It’s

After a particularly grueling work trip of traveling through ten countries in ten days, Rodney Tipton told his wife that during the few minutes of downtime, he had the chance to listen to the song “Acquiesce” from singer K.D. Lang and that it inspired him to one day have a property and call it Acquiesce.

The kitchen in the Sanz home Bodegas Severino Sanz The incredible smells of thick steaks cooking over a wood fire fueled by grapevines encourage drool to form at the guests’ mouths as they eagerly wait in anticipation for a meal of a lifetime. The large centuries-old kitchen had festive Spanish music playing in the background

The San Francisco World Spirits Competition celebrated its 22th iteration back in April, and this time around it was bigger than ever. “With over 5000 entries from 40 countries we are by leaps and bounds the largest and longest running blind judging event [in the world],” according to Amanda Blue, president of the event. “This

Topline The stock market rebounded strongly on Friday, posting its first positive week this month as recession fears subsided somewhat thanks to positive economic data suggesting that inflation may have peaked, while some experts expressed optimism about the health of the economy. Key Facts Stocks snapped a three-week losing streak on Friday: The Dow Jones

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Did you catch my feature published last Saturday on the lifeless market for meatless meat? It’s gotten a lot of buzz. One food investor tweeted it out with a particularly strong reaction, saying the article “breaks through with real data and exposes the lies being spread

My heartiest and heartfelt congratulations to Clif Bar & Company and its employees on their landmark agreement to sell to Mondelēz International! The natural energy, nutrition and snack bar maker – 20% owned by its employees – sold itself for $2.9 billion, with additional earnout possibilities. Clif Bar and Gary Erickson and Kit Crawford, its

If health concerns over traditional meat consumption, such as heart disease and harmful cholesterol, are priming the consumer switch to the plant-based counterparts, environmental issues, notably overfishing, are what’s driving the latest craze of seafood alternatives — a whopping $175 million was invested into the sector globally in 2021, Good Food Institute showed, increasing by

Chick-fil-A seems to be taking a page from Chipotle’s playbook. The chicken chain announced it is testing a dedicated drive-thru lane for customers who order ahead via its mobile app. According to a company blog, the “Drive-Thru Express” model is currently available at approximately 60 participating restaurants with the potential to roll out to more

Topline Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pledged in testimony before Congress on Wednesday that the central bank is “moving expeditiously” to raise interest rates and remains “strongly committed” to doing so until there is “compelling evidence” that inflation is normalizing. Key Facts In his semiannual testimony on monetary policy to Congress, Powell faced questions from

After two years of celebrating the Spirited Awards virtually, the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation is finally ready to fete the year’s honorees and winners in New Orleans this July—much to the delight of the industry. Long acknowledged as one of the hospitality industry’s top honors, the Spirited Awards has been recognizing the finest bars,

Inflation has returned, and not just at the gas pump. While raising consumer prices is always risky, many F&B companies have had to take that chance as freight and material costs have skyrocketed. Some are finding that hiking prices hasn’t hampered demand much, at least for now. Campbell Soup Co., Kellogg’s, and Kraft Heinz all

In the 1920s, despair prompted Soviet leaders to adopt the New Economic Policy (NEP), an attempt at new policies to improve the economy. In 2022, facing sanctions and isolation from Western countries, Russian leaders appear to have adopted another new economic policy. In the 1920s, NEP was based on a greater use of market forces.

The words “philanthropy” and “wine” today are frequently associated with education and mentorship programs for rising talent, often from traditionally under-represented populations, in order to increase their visibility and contributions to the wine industry. The people behind the newly-established Vida Valiente Foundation take that theme of wine philanthropy, particularly through education, another step forward: they

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

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