Food & Drink

Sheep are increasingly being used to avoid pesticides in champagne production–these are in the … [+] Lacourte-Godbillon vineyards in Ecueil, near Champagne, France. AFP via Getty Images It’s been a difficult year for the champagne industry for a number of reasons. Without anything to celebrate during Covid-19, sales of the bubbly plummeted by as much

Hot drink cocktail for New Year, Christmas, winter or autumn holidays. Toddy. Mulled pear cider or … [+] spiced tea or grog with lemon, pear, cinnamon, anise, cardamom, rosemary. getty Monday (January 11th) is officially “National Hot Toddy Day.” While admittedly the fake holidays are a little bogus, a Hot Toddy is anything but. The

Denny’s has had an especially difficult time lately. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education … [+] Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The surge in COVID cases this winter has been unkind to restaurants, but it’s been especially cruel to sit-down chain restaurants. A new report from Placer.ai, which studies

Champagne (unsurprisingly) reigned this New Year’s Eve for North America’s largest alcohol … [+] marketplace getty In one of the most unprecedented New Year’s Eve in memory, what was the nation sipping on? Bubbles, tequila and hard seltzer according to Drizly, North America’s largest e-commerce alcohol marketplace. New Years’ Eve was the biggest night of

Farmer sentiment is on an upswing according to the latest survey from Purdue University. getty The attitude that farmers have about the future are seemingly on the incline, albeit slightly. The most recent release of Perdue University’s Ag Economy Barometer has found that sentiment has risen after a decline in November. The rise also comes

A knob of ginger like the one shown here is mixed with water, sugar and a touch of lemon to make a … [+] potent syrup that turns into a DIY Ginger Beer. Using the syrup and sparkling water allows you to customize the ginger flavor in your cocktails and a myriad of other uses.

Double dinner is a January 2021 trend–combining different cuisines getty With many countries on lockdown or heading into one since the New Year, many people are feeling pandemic fatigue. The first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic got everyone back into their kitchens, either relying on frozen vegetables and canned goods or cultivating sourdough

While plastics blanket the planet, the food and beverage industry is looking at how to make … [+] sustainable packaging– recycling, reusing and (sometimes) replacing plastic. getty Few things are more recognizable than the Coca-Cola bottle, which debuted in 1916 with a sleek design that helped make it an icon. Over the years, its glass

Snails might be the real Christmas lockdown winner getty It’s a typical cliché that the French like to eat snails or escargots in butter-laden shells–but it hasn’t happened much in 2020, and in some cases, the impact of the pandemic has been catastrophic. Small snail farmers, who grow land snails to sell to market, usually

COVID, as we know, has made the vulnerable among us even more so. Not only has unemployment skyrocketed, many of the low-wage hourly workers who do have shifts scheduled must choose whether to stay home and stay safe or keep earning a paycheck by potentially exposing themselves to virus transmission in the workplace. Though conditions

KChan (left) and KLee (right) launched high-protein, low-carb ramen company immi out of their shared … [+] backgrounds in the food industry. immi It’s 2021, and ramen lovers just got a healthy option to slurp with the launch of immi. The website of the world’s first low-carb, high-protein instant ramen company has officially gone live

The Sommelier’s Cookbook Joanie Metivier Winter’s back, right on time. While the season of low light and short days doesn’t manifest the same in every state – looking at you Florida and California – those in the north are largely trapped indoors. Throw a pandemic into the mix and a The Shining awaits a contemporary

Do you remember what was so top of mind for wine lovers at this time last year? Tariffs. As in, the tariffs that had been proposed later in 2019 by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) that threatened to levy up to 100 percent on European wines. We “got away” with 25 percent tariffs, most

Old Bushmills. Distillery. Bushmills. County Antrim. Northern Ireland. (Photo by: Carlo … [+] Morucchio/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Did someone say, “free whiskey?” Indeed. In fact, its not just anyone making the offer, but Bushmills—one of the planet’s primary producers of the brown spirit. The legendary Irish brand

SAYULA, MEXICO – MARCH 11: A ‘jimador’ cuts the blue agave later used to distil and produce Tequila … [+] on March 11, 2020 in Sayula, Mexico. Tequila companies are still producin amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Alfredo Martinez/Getty Images) Getty Images “When times are good, people drink. When times are bad, they drink

The Lucy Rose has a red skin and is part Honeycrisp and part Airlie Red. Baldor Specialty Foods Take a walk down the produce aisle at your local supermarket, and you’ll likely see an abundance of apples. The U.S. is the third biggest apple producer in the world with an output of around 4.8 million

2020 is officially in the rearview mirror and that means Dry January is now underway. For the uninitiated, Dry January is a one-month sobriety challenge that began as a public health campaign in the United Kingdom about eight years ago. The popularity of the movement has exploded in the years since it began. Alcohol Change

WINDSOR, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 01: Customers line up outside of Russian River Brewing Company to be … [+] the first people to try the new Pliny the Younger on February 01, 2019 in Windsor, California. Hundreds of people lined up hours before the opening of Russian River Brewing Co. to taste their annual release of

Steamboat, CO, 2020 — Mountain Tap Brewing has repurposed old gondolas for socially distanced … [+] seating during COVID. Mountain Tap Brewing You don’t need me to tell you that this year has devastated a staggering number of people and businesses.  On top of putting the lives of tens of millions of food-and-drink professionals at

Take five: Books that explore food and food culture Courtesy of publishers; collage: LBortolot So, after all the dystopian novels and pandemic literature, what did y’all read this year? My list reflected what most concerned me (and probably most people) in 2020: health, food and travel. While I wasn’t aiming for a theme, these books