It’s Memorial Day weekend: the unofficial kickoff to summer drinking season. Across the country, drinkers are cracking open zeitgeist-fueled hard seltzers, crushable beers and ready-to-drink cocktails. But this summer, let us introduce you to piquette—a low-ABV, wine-adjacent bubbly beverage. “It’s a very bright, cheerful style with lots of expressive fruity flavor,” describes Katherine Sturgill, the beverage
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Nestlé-owned Sweet Earth is on a mission to help consumers move forward in their journeys toward more plant-based eating by creating products for key occasions like barbecue season and snack time, and using feedback from fans to develop new and improved versions of its plant-based meat alternatives. “The biggest thing we’re seeing in this space is
In a follow-up to last August’s viral tie die collaboration with Jake Gyllenhaal, New York’s Russ & Daughters has launched a brand new apparel item to break the internet. Russ & Daughters, Jake Gyllenhaal, and New York Forever have teamed up to create a limited edition lox sweatshirt, with proceeds donated to the Actors Fund’s
For years the world of fine wine has been dominated by men aged 60 and above, but a new study launched by Areni-Global, shows that this is finally changing. Key drivers include technology, Covid, and shifting social patterns. Now more women and younger consumers are entering the once rarified air of fine wine collecting, where
Every Monday at 3 p.m, online ordering opens up for Kora, a Filipino microbakery based in New York City. It’s been almost a year since cofounder Kimberly Camara started selling her doughnuts, and while production has increased from 100 doughnuts a week to 1,000 doughnuts, they still sell out in under a minute. Camara and
Some of New York City’s best eateries, as well as live music and entertainment will be on full display all weekend long. As signs of life continue to spring up across the five boroughs, Time Out Market New York will officially reopen its doors just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Set between the Brooklyn
When I visited Cain Vineyard & Winery in 2018 during the flourishing February pruning season, there was much reflection from the team about the wildfires that had devastated parts of Northern California’s wine country in 2017, just months prior. Cain Vineyard & Winery exists on a bowl-shaped, nature-swaddled property in the Spring Mountain District of Napa Valley.
“Americans might be entering the waning days of the year-plus coronavirus pandemic,” Arthur C. Brooks wrote in a recent article for The Atlantic, but during “these last weeks and months before something resembling normality returns, we might ask ourselves, ‘What do I want ‘normal’ to look like?’ Then, we can start preparing for a new
Since people tend to eat with their eyes first, the visual appearance of food matters. Food dyes have the ability to transform plain substances into intriguing creations that entice your eyes and encourage you to take a bite. Now, researchers have discovered a new brilliant blue coloring that could be a natural alternative to synthetic
Depending on where you live, you might have seen a cannabis cocktail or two show up on the menu at your local bar. They’re typically low-dose, and use infused spirits or simple syrups to give them their buzz. Today Lively Spirits is releasing a product that takes things a bit further, purejuana, a product the
When Covid-19 hit last year, Goldbelly, the e-commerce platform founded by CEO Joe Ariel, became the travel hero of the pandemic. With food from over 800 restaurants delivered straight to customers’ doorsteps, from a three-course shrimp and grits dinner from Commander’s Palace (now helmed by chef Meg Bickford) in New Orleans to Shabbat meal kits
Alaska residents embrace their state’s rugged and remote nature; it’s something they wear as a badge of honor. Hardships that other Americans bemoan-blizzards, high prices, items out of stock are things that Alaskans take for granted. It’s the price they pay for living in a place that is more wilderness than civilization and drives a
The Mazzei family owns Castello di Fonterutoli in Chianti Classico since 1435. The same family has owned it for almost 600 years. You cannot help being impressed. We recently spoke with Giovanni Mazzei about their new wines and new vintages. Together we tasted Chianti Classico but also wines from Maremma, the Tuscany coastal region, and
Guy Fieri, cable television’s so-called Mayor of Flavortown, recently signed a fresh contract with the Food Network for his popular Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and Guy’s Grocery Games. It will pay the celebrity chef $80 million over three years, a $50 million raise from his prior agreement. The eight-figure deal makes the 53-year-old the top-paid
The #MeToo movement has finally exploded onto the craft beer scene and it’s reverberating around the country in unexpected ways. In Philadelphia, it’s shaking up the board of Philly Loves Beer (PLB), the powerful organization that hosts Philly Beer Week and myriad events throughout the year. As of Friday afternoon, two board members have quit.
When restaurateur John Philips heard one morning this month that Las Gemelas, his new Washington, D.C., taqueria, was getting a visit from Small Business Administration officials, he thought it was curious how many plainclothes secret service agents showed up in advance. It all made sense when President Joe Biden walked through the doors instead. President
You’ve heard of mystery meat, Mystery Men and Mystery Science Theater. But have you ever considered the concept of mystery gin? Leave it to the off-beat and creative minds at Tamworth Distilling in New Hampshire to come up with an alcohol so secret that even its own distiller doesn’t know the flavors he’s concocting. It’s
One of the main focuses of agricultural biotechnology is to feed a hungry world in a more sustainable way. Many current farming methods are inefficient because they require large amounts of water, fertilizer and pesticides. Agricultural biotech is trying to solve these problems by starting at the seed level. Inari, a company that specializes in
A vast majority of American wines are certified sustainable. But do consumers know what it means? How should the producers explain the idea of being sustainable to their customers? This was one crucial issue raised during the second US Sustainable Winegrowing Summit on April 19 – 21, jointly hosted by the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance,
The history of sugary sweets can be traced all the way back to 6000 BC, and the word “candy” is derived from “khanda,” an ancient Sanskrit word that translates to “piece of sugar.” From fruit juice toffee in Ukraine to coconut drops in Jamaica, we’ll take a look at candy around the world. Intro –