Food & Drink

Broiling heat in the middle of the worst drought in 1,200 years has strained the state’s underground water supply, pitting the Central Valley’s $20 billion agriculture industry against many of its own workers. Nature has a way of telling people when their wells are running dry. In California’s Central Valley, where 40% of the fresh

Pets play many roles in modern society as friends, companions, guards, or exercise partners. In 2021, the pet food market in the US exceeded $40 billion. The dry “kibble” category of dry pet food dominates the market, but particularly since the pandemic, there has been a small but growing trend towards fresh refrigerated or frozen

Eggs are one of the most inexpensive sources of protein in the world. Whether you like them scrambled for breakfast, on your sandwich for lunch, in your soup for dinner, or baked for dessert, there are many uses for an egg. Let’s take a look at 18 ways eggs are prepared around the world. Editor’s

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin In a widely expected move on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve wrapped up its two-day policy meeting by announcing a third consecutive 75-basis-point interest rate hike, raising borrowing costs to their highest level since the Great Recession. Stocks immediately tanked in volatile trading after the news, and

Grocery stores have long been a place where brands battle, but lately, private label has been winning. Retailers from Walmart WMT to Trader Joe’s are pumping it up, and given the post-pandemic economy, inflation, and retailers’ interest in building their own brands, we may be seeing a perfect storm for private label. While Walmart’s private

Smart cookies, these snack companies: despite a societal backlash on all things ‘sugar’, the cookie category has reached an impressive benchmark in the US, topping $10 billion in annual sales. According to IRI, a Chicago-based market research company, dollar sales in the cookie category were $10.8 billion in the 52 week period leading up to

Nisreen Galloway and Elizabeth Nash were writing and literature majors at Emerson College in Boston, but the two met and became friends in an entrepreneurial class. Galloway grew up in Boston, and Nash grew up in Milwaukee, but the two of them both shared a heritage of pairing ice cream and spirits. “We both are

D’Angelo Grilled Sandwiches, which started as a shop in Dedham, Mass. about 20 miles southwest of Boston in 1967, has faced a variety of ownership changes and expansion. Currently, it has 87 retail stores including 62 company-owned and 25 franchised. It was once acquired by Pepsi-Cola in 1993 and is now owned by Wynnchurch Capital,

Autumn is pumpkin-everything season in the US. But did you know cultures around the world use pumpkins in their cooking year-round? In Armenia, the inside of the pumpkin is stuffed with boiled rice, dried fruit, nuts, and honey for a dish called Ghapama. South African pampoenkoekies are tiny pumpkin fritters made with cinnamon and nutmeg.

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Chobani billionaire Hamdi Ulukaya makes an economic case for big U.S. companies to hire refugees for blue- and white-collar jobs. Nearly four dozen large companies, including Amazon AMZN , Hilton and PepsiCo PEP , committed to hiring more than 22,000 refugees over the next three years

When I stopped by Boisson, the non-alcoholic beverages shop, in the West Village after it opened, and asked Jesse Fried, the sales associate, whom it appealed to, his answer surprised me. I presumed it would be primarily people who don’t drink, but he replied the clientele consists mostly of people who want to drink less.

The second you descend into Quaglino’s opulent underground restaurant, you can’t help but feel like you’ve wandered into another era. Founded in 1929 by Giovanni Quaglino, the iconic London restaurant built a reputation for itself as the home of fashionably late dinner-cum-dancing evenings and the go-to night out for many curious royals, including Queen Elizabeth

Chris Hemsworth aka Thor, the Avengers’ hammer-welding god of Norse Mythology, and founder of health and fitness platform Centr, and Andrew Sugerman, former Executive Vice President at Disney and new CEO of Centr, are feeling inspired— with a capital I. The duo tells me that they are feeling more Centr’d than ever following unification with

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Inside the fence of a Lower East Side garden, I worked the late shift at my New York City neighborhood’s community-supported agriculture share last night. I loved every minute. I weighed out potatoes and Italian long beans as members picked out ears of corn, basil, kale,

Manny’s Cafeteria & Delicatessen is a Jewish deli in Chicago’s South Loop famous for its corned beef sandwiches. The deli is known for its Jewish food, including pastrami, latkes, and matzo ball soup. Founded more than 75 years ago, Manny’s has been passed down through four generations of the Raskin family, which continues to own

Table set for wedding in the vineyards getty As beautiful outdoor weddings, charity events and meaningful anniversaries are coming back in droves to Napa Valley, it makes one forget that a pandemic ever existed. Chris Kajani, winemaker and general manager of Bouchaine Vineyards & Winery, noted that everything is off its typical schedule as it

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Stocks have continued to struggle for direction since a hotter-than-expected inflation report earlier this week dragged markets to their worst single-day drop since June 2020, with the Dow plunging over 1,200 points. While inflation remains stubbornly high, investors have grown increasingly concerned that the Federal Reserve

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Through two new marketing campaigns focused on the Latin American audience in the United States, Expedia hopes to engage this segment of the population to travel and discover everything Latin America has to offer. And at the heart of the campaign is our love of food. The first campaign launched yesterday with a 30-second advert

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