Food & Drink

Having a perfectly designed and well-stocked home bar often is high on many people’s wish lists. It allows one to host a lively cocktail party or a small intimate evening. But for many people, the idea of building one is daunting. There can be so many moving parts—every week seems to bring out the next

Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer, is taking vertical integration to a new level, by investing in vertical agriculture. Yes, the retailer, which already operates its own bank, is going into the farming business. It’s a big deal for them, or at least for vertical agriculture. Walmart, with 2.2 million employees, recently took a stake in

A wine writer and her mentor share a bottle of wine without drinking it My annual birthday tribute to someone who taught me more about wine than any textbook I’ve ever read. Many people meet their mentors in offices. I met mine over a glass—make that several—of Riesling. It wasn’t that Diane Teitelbaum and I were

Chef Thomas Bellec is from Brittany, the coastal region in France known for its exquisite seafood. When he joined Four Seasons Resort Hualalai on the Big Island as Executive Chef in 2017, he launched one of the most innovative local food programs in Hawai’i, from farming his own oysters and shrimp to sourcing more than

Two former executives of Lily’s Sweets, which was recently acquired by Hershey for an estimated $450 million, have officially joined Monogram Capital as operating partners. Lonna Borden and Seth Monette — previously Chief Operating Officer and Chief Customer Officer, respectively, at the low-sugar chocolate company, promise to leverage their experience to provide guidance and value-add

Let me begin with a quick recap. A few weeks ago, the organizers of ProWein in Düsseldorf, Germany, one of the wine industry’s largest and most-attended trade fairs, announced that they’ve rescheduled their fair dates for this year from late March (their traditional, typical “slot” in the calendar) to mid-May instead. The dates they chose

For the 12th year in a row, strong consumer demand for premium spirits drove significant market share gains for the US spirits industry. In its annual review and report on the state of the US spirit industry, the Distilled Spirits Council of the US (DISCUS) highlighted the factors primarily responsible for the continued rise in

Having a big wedding can be cheesy, so one Brooklyn pizzeria is taking the micro-wedding trend into its own hands. This Valentine’s Day, Monday, February 14, L’industrie Pizzeria in Williamsburg is partnering with Honeybreak Officiants to sling out fourteen special pizza-centric weddings. The inclusive 10-minute ceremony with I Do vows and a license signing, can

The Texas energy grid failed around this time last year. Now power outages are again hitting hundreds of thousands across the country as communities reel from another winter storm. And I’m curled up next to my space heater in New York City wondering whether the constant bouncing from crisis to crisis will finally give the food

A woman could feel her palms sweat as she entered the traditional fine wine store filled with dark, beautifully carved wood shelves that contained expensive wine bottles from all over the world. She had been reading about one particular bottle from Burgundy, France that she wanted to purchase but she was new to wine and

Last week, Upside Foods, which is developing cell-cultured meat, announced its acquisition of Cultured Decadence, a start-up that aims to make seafood from cells, starting with lobster. Yes lobster. Why? Of course, lobsters are over-fished, as is most seafood. But that reality alone does not create consumer demand.   All that matters at the end

The number of new foreign-born workers in the United States declined because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but U.S. workers were not better off, according to new research. That refutes a long-held anti-immigration argument and addresses a concern raised by some labor unions. Worker shortages, partly a result of restrictive immigration policies and made worse by

At this point, it’s safe to say most brands have a “signature” chicken sandwich to compete in the intensely competitive category ignited by Chick-fil-A and bolstered by Popeyes. Those sandwiches have generated sustained success throughout the past couple of years, illustrating a consumer set that’s not even close to getting tired of such options. Fortunately

Salty snacks company Benestar Brands, which operates across the U.S. and Mexico, has acquired premium pork rinds producer 4505 Meats. Insiders estimate the deal size is between $50 million to $100 million. 4505 Meats was founded in 2009 by San Francisco-based butcher and chef Ryan Farr as a way to utilize discarded chicharrones, and its

Wall Street has finally gotten the memo that healthier products equal healthier financials This month Unilever suffered a setback in its effort to transform itself into a more health-oriented company: its deal to buy GlaxoSmithKline’s Plc’s consumer health arm fell through after Unilever couldn’t meet the asking price. The pullout cost Unilever’s giant consumer product

Hey all you skeptics out there. British supermarket chain, Waitrose recently released its 2022 Food and Drink report in which it predicts that potato milk will be the biggest dairy alternative milk trend of 2022. Yes. Potatoes. “We’ve seen the popularity of soy, almond, oat, and pea milk in recent years,” said Waitrose. “Now it’s

As Dry January comes to a close, many of us are swapping back to our standard drinks. But that doesn’t mean the non-alcoholic category is going anywhere. According to the IWSR, the no- and low-alcohol category has reached almost $10 billion in value across key global markets. The research firm forecasts that no- and low-alcohol

In the English-speaking Caribbean, one of the sub-regions of the world with the highest prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), public health organizations are locked in a tug-of-war with the food industry over proposed food-related legislation targeted at addressing the over-consumption of NCD-causing foods. In summary: Diet-driven NCDs cause up to 83% of all deaths in

Get ready for a wheat market rebound. If U.S. president Joe Biden is correct about a pending war between Russia and Ukraine then expect prices for the grain to jump back to at least the price seen last November of $8.57 a bushel. That’s around 9% higher than recent levels of $7.89. Wheat is used

This weekend we’re playing with the idea of tasting the component grapes of wines from the Côtes du Rhône, with the twist of tasting them one by one rather than blended together as usual. This experiment isn’t scientific or perfectly constructed, in that it’s unusual to find a wine made from, say, one hundred percent