Food & Drink

As Halloween and the holidays approach, I tell myself that if I eat salads, that will balance out all the treats and goodies that the season brings. But the truth is that I don’t eat salads as much as I should and I envy those people who make a salad every day for lunch. My good

CAULIPOWER, most known for being the leading maker of cauliflower crust pizzas, is on a roll with its innovative approaches to frozen and healthy takes on the food we all love. It was only months ago the company rolled out new healthy pasta options and more recently the company pushed boundaries with its latest new

Patagonia, a purveyor of cult-loved, earth-friendly gear, is veering into the world of wine, extending the Patagonia Provisions line to include natural wines, ciders and sakes.  Why, you weren’t planning on swinging by Patagonia for your happy hour bottle? Perhaps reconsider—the clothing and camping brand brought aboard two wine industry vets to line up Patagonia-exclusive

California’s “Gold Country” towns are known for mid-19th century architecture, historic parks (many of which are former mines), and proximity to Yosemite National Park. But luxury hotels are not exactly on every corner in this neck of the woods. It’s more common to find moderately priced hotels geared toward weekend skiers, hikers and mountain bikers

When Covid hit, the Theo Chocolate Company in Seattle, WA, had to shut down their factory visits just like so many companies across the world. But soon, Theo took to Zoom and started offering virtual chocolate tasting classes. This is how I became acquainted with Theo. I had seen the bars in my local grocery

Beaujolais is a wine region cultivated — almost exclusively — with a single grape variety: Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc, or simply, Gamay. Employed to craft the iconic regional, Village, and Cru Beaujolais red wines and also an increasing portion of rosé, one might think that if a white wine were to come from this

Within just five months of launching what they say is the world’s first all-natural ready-to-drink spiked coconut water, makers of the Sunboy sparkling coconut cocktail beverage are already shipping to more than half the United States, and they credit some of their success not to rich backers or celebrity sponsors but to a modern distribution

Ryan Ostrom was named CMO of Jack in the Box JACK in late January 2021 when the dust was still settling from one of the most tumultuous years in the industry’s history. It also happened to be about two months after the 2,100-unit chain settled a lingering lawsuit with franchisees over its marketing fund and remodeling

Most of the U.S. may not have heard of Portillo’s, given that it only exists in nine states. But chances are likely they will soon. The 67-unit, Chicago-based hot dog restaurant chain made its debut on the NASDAQ NDAQ market Thursday, and jumped more than 50% within hours. What has investors so excited–especially after a

I still remember how relieved I was when I found the public document stuck in a rarely-used Alaskan government database that gave me the proof I needed. It was 2017 and I was investigating Chuck Bundrant. Specifically, I was trying to find out how much he owned of Trident Seafoods, the largest fishing operation in

Topline Shares of plant-based food maker Beyond Meat plunged nearly 13% on Friday—to their lowest point in almost a year—after the company issued a dour third-quarter revenue outlook amid slowing growth and increased competition from other brands. Key Facts Beyond Meat, which reports earnings on November 10, issued a warning on Friday that it expects

Through much of the course of her career, Chicagoan Liz Garibay struggled to convince her superiors to let her work on her greatest area of interest. They just didn’t deem it worthy of serious research. But after years of persuasion, the PhD and former curator at several of Chicago’s top cultural institutions finally managed to

It turns out that the Salmonella Oranienburg outbreak from a previously unknown food source actually has an onion ring to it. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announcement today, fresh whole red, white, and yellow onions are the likely source of an outbreak that has left at least 652 people sick

The slowdown of the hard seltzer market reared its head today in the Boston Beer Company’s earnings call. While they reported third-quarter depletions increased 11%, and their third-quarter shipments increased 11.2% compared to the prior year, they still reported a net loss of $139.2 million due to slower than anticipated hard seltzer growth. “The unexpected

I have written of my desire to see more focus by the food and agriculture technology innovation ecosystem on solving today’s problems. I would like to offer the concept of collective impact as an effective approach to problem-solving that I hope can be deployed more broadly to tackle the food system’s urgent and wide-ranging challenges.

Just when you think there’s nothing new under the sun, leave it to an innovative Napa winemaker to create a unique offering that focuses on the vessel that houses his wines as much as the wines themselves. Lawrence Fairchild, a Nebraska farm boy, studied soil science and bought his first small vineyard in 1999, which

The ever-competitive alcoholic beverage space in America just got a little more crowded and complicated with the recent release of Five Trail Blended American Whiskey from the newly founded Coors Whiskey Co. As the first full-strength spirit released by Molson Coors Beverage Company (MCBC), it helps to blur further the once-solid lines that used to

Remember all that chatter about hard seltzer falling flat? According to a new study by drinks market analysis firm IWSR, volume shares of the overall ready-to-drink category are set to double in the next five years. This growth will give the category command of 8% of total beverage alcohol by 2025, up from the current

Before you gobble down any turkey products, first make sure that they aren’t part of the Butterball recall. Some consumers have found pieces of blue plastic in their raw ground turkey from Butterball, LLC. This has prompted the Mount Olive, North Carolina-based company to recall ground turkey products that were produced on September 28, according

Chuck Bundrant, the titan of the fishing industry who commercialized pollock at fast food chains around the world and spent six decades trawling northern seas, died on Sunday at the age of 79. Bundrant quietly ran America’s largest seafood company, Trident Seafoods, from Seattle, with a fleet of 40 vessels and 16 processing plants, mainly