Food & Drink

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.
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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
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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.
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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
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This article is co-authored with Sara Farley, Managing Director, Integrated Operations, Food Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation. Since the middle of the last century, the world’s approach to getting food on the table has focused first and foremost on productivity. We have expanded access to affordable food by ramping up agricultural production by any means possible.
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Sylvia Mallari is the Global Co-Chairperson of the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty, a growing network of grassroots food producers from dozens of countries. The coalition believes in the Right To Food and organizes small farmers, agricultural workers, Indigenous Peoples, herders, pastoralists, fisherfolks, the urban poor, women, Dalits, and youth to resist agricultural policies that extract wealth and resources from
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