Food & Drink

Grammy Award nominated hip hop duo, Earthgang is on a mission to create change. “As millennials, we’re told about the many problems that we were born into,” says WowGr8, as Olu nods in agreement. “Naturally as you get older you’re gonna see how much you can repair.” From investing in a community initiatives, to collaborating

Tony’s Chocolonely has been ratcheting up sales of its large slabs of guilt-free chocolate across the U.S. for a few years—and, despite a pandemic-induced travel downtown, has been getting some extra momentum by opening in airports as well. Now the Dutch brand is testing a standalone store at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport—which in 2020 became the

Salt water taffy was developed in the late 1800s by Joseph Rowling in Atlantic City. Truth is this taffy has no salt water in it, and instead got its name from its proximity to beach waters, which obviously contain salt. Stores can run about 2,000 pounds of taffy a day. The process starts with corn

If you’re debating the world’s best dining destinations, Manhattan is all-but-guaranteed to be a part of the conversation. And yet the examples you’d be citing are almost equally as certain to come from 59th Street on down. To wit, as of 2021, all but two of the borough’s 56 Michelin-starred restaurants were located south of

The restaurant industry is more than 100,000 units smaller than it was in March 2020, when lockdown orders first went into place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Other headlines have been just as grim. The industry has experienced $240 billion in lost sales, for example, as well as rent deferrals, furloughs, layoffs and bankruptcies, employees

We compiled a list of 43 giant foods to eat before you die. This list includes larger-than-life desserts, snacks, and savory meals. Among the favorites are the towering fried pork skin from The Aviary in NYC, the 12-egg omelet from Beth’s Cafe in Seattle, and the giant sushi roll from Deli Sushi & Desserts in

Billionaire Enrique Razon Jr. has taken control of Manila Water from Ayala Corp.—the Philippines’ oldest conglomerate—as the ports and gaming tycoon expands his investments in infrastructure projects. Razon was appointed chairman, president and CEO of Manila Water on June 3 after Trident Water, a subsidiary of Razon’s Prime Strategic Holdings, completed its initial investment of

San Miguel Foods & Beverage (SMFB), controlled by billionaire Ramon Ang, is spending 30 billion pesos ($627 million) to expand the company’s animal feeds production capacity amid a strong recovery in the group’s profit. “We are also in the process of building seven new feed mills,” Ang, president and CEO of SMFB, said at the

What if you can drink a beer with perfectly creamy foam on top right at home?  Asahi Breweries has made that dream come true. The new product is called “Asahi Super Dry Nama Jokki Kan”, which means Asahi Super Dry in the style of draft beer in a mug.  The 340ml (11.5oz) cans, with 5% alcohol

J Vineyards & Winery has long been a go-to Russian River Valley producer for world-class sparkling wine. With six estate vineyards that reflect the valley’s range of expression, J’s wines are, at this point, California icons. The sparkling house was founded in 1986 by Judy Jordan, daughter of the Jordan Winery founders, and she bought

There are only 21 lesbian bars in the United States. 8.5 million lesbians live in this country, but the spaces that cater to them are fading away. Last year, at the height of the pandemic, filmmakers Erica Rose (who, full disclosure, is my second cousin) and Elina Street ran a fundraiser to save these bars,

Get set to get moved by Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (Focus Films), directed by Academy Award-winner Morgan Neville. This beautifully shot and edited documentary feature movie, opening in theaters on July 16th, 2021, celebrates the best-selling author, chef, globetrotter, storyteller and award-winning TV personality, whose untimely death in 2018 shook the travel and

Over the past year, ocean conservation has caught mainstream attention with the release of “Seaspiracy.” And now World Oceans Day by United Nations on June 8 is expected to bring the conversation to the forefront. But the chefs at one hospitality brand have already been working hard to make a difference in protecting our oceans. 

As of September 20, 2020, Hyatt Hotels (NYSE: H) spanned 20 brands and owned more than 950 hotels, covering 67 countries across six continents. And yet a program it launched in 2019, Hyatt Loves Local, helps nearby small businesses in its communities thrive.  During the pandemic, the program has managed to keep some of these mom

Over the past few years, one of the greatest wine producers in Spain, many would argue one of the greatest in the world, Vega Sicilia, has started to release their dry Furmint wines from Tokaj, Hungary, onto the market. In true Vega style, they bought a Tokaj estate in the 1993 yet they have continually

Ligia Guallpa is Executive Director of Worker’s Justice Project in New York City. Errol Schweizer: What is Worker’s Justice Project and Los Deliveristas Unidos? Ligia Guallpa: Worker’s Justice Project was started in 2010 by a group of jornaleras, or women day laborers, and construction workers in Williamsburg, with the dream to have a better life, to earn better wages and have

     On a trip to Napa Valley in 2005, KABC Los Angeles anchor and reporter Leslie Miller met the man who would become her husband and change her life. Having spent several months immersed in the Michael Jackson trial, the career newswoman headed to Napa Valley for a short break and shared what would be the

The pandemic has disrupted the food business across the U.S. but less so for bakeries than restaurants. But there’s also opportunity there. Take Angelina’s Bakery in New York City. Once there were two Angelina’s Bakery in Manhattan, one in Hell’s Kitchen and the other near Central Park. Owner Tony Park shuttered the one near Central Park but

Regis Chapman, Head of the World Food Programme’s Caribbean office stands at the foothills of La Soufrière volcano in Sandy Bay St. Vincent. The village in the north of the country, typically recognized for its beautiful seaside location and large indigenous community, has been relegated to the status of “red zone.” It is has been

Look out below. Prices for pork look set to plunge over the summer, recent research shows. August-dated futures contracts for lean hogs recently fetched around $1.16 a pound on the CME, the highest level since mid-2014. That’s up from around 62 cents at the beginning of the year. But what goes up must come down, according