Food & Drink

Surging sales of hard seltzer, imports and craft offerings have helped the beer category grow 7.1% year-to-date, according to market research firm IRI. The Chicago-based firm — which tracks sales at major off-premise retail chains, grocery outlets, and convenience stores — reports that hard seltzer dollar sales were up 56.6% during the year-to-date period ending

This is the largest free kitchen in the world. Open 24 hours, year round, this food hall feeds 100,000 people for free each day. And on religious holidays that number can double. Just one of these huge bowls is enough to feed around 10,000 people. We visited Amritsar in India to find out everything that

Craving an IPA but want to skip the booze? Why not crack open a can of hop water. Over the last several months, a number of beverage brands have introduced hop-infused concoctions designed to replace both alcohol and traditional sparkling water. Most recently, Colorado-based beverage company Hoplark – which makes the “HopTea” brand of hoppy

Buying groceries online just got a bit easier for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) users in 15 states. Beginning April 29, 2021, online grocery platform, Instacart is expanding acceptance of EBT SNAP payment to three new retailers Publix, The Save Mart Companies and Price Chopper/Market 32, for online grocery delivery and pickup. The expansion increases

The United States pioneered use of the “dolphin-safe” tuna label in the 1990s. Since then, various forms of dolphin-safe tuna labelling have taken hold around the world. While the U.S. dolphin-safe labelling process has received its fair share of praise and scrutiny, the initiative aided in monumental reductions in the commercial tuna fishing industry’s impacts

“Did you know that Filipino slaves—the ones brought to Mexico by the Galleon Trade—taught Mexicans to distill?” No. No, I did not. That was how my first phone call with Rebecca Quiñonez, a longtime spirits educator, started. In that moment, I felt massive shame that I had zero clue that the agave spirits I enjoy

     In the past five years, exports from Jumilla to the United States have continued their upward trend, with an increase of 30% over 2015. Between August 2019 and July 2020, more than 3 million bottles of DOP Jumilla wine were imported into the US. This is an increase of 20% more than the prior year,

Among the wine producers affected by France’s Gelée Noir (“Black Frost”), dampened spirits along with the icy vineyards  As most wine lovers know, several regions in Europe were affected by severe frosts, when temperatures dropped to -7°C (19°F) and stayed there for several days. The cold snap damaged vines in large parts of Italy and France

Alexandra Dorda had long been a rum drinker, but she never felt a connection to most rum brands. “There weren’t any rums that spoke to me,” she says. “They were just hyper-focused on this nautical trope that I just didn’t feel.” Dorda says rum brands often focused on “cartoon pirates and sailors, even at the

Allan Stevens and his long-time business partner Tony Stahl were not your typical health-focused men years ago, when the pair was selling electronic accessories on Amazon AMZN out of their Washington office. In Stevens’ own words, he was a “non-nutrition guy who ate indiscriminately and plentiful”, but later became a champion in the wellness space

For more than 30 years, Gambero Rosso, arguably the leading wine publication in Italy, has been publishing Vini d’Italia, a guide to that country’s wines in each year. This guide is a herculean work, as it represents the work of the Gambero Rosso team that taste over 46,000 wines from a specific year and then

Sunday isn’t a typical day for a post in this column, and I don’t typically post about book reviews that are outside the category of wine. But today offers a unique opportunity for weekend reading with the special twist of a chapter about wine in a book about food, restaurants and redemption. Erin French, the

Caciocavallo cheese is one of the most popular cheeses in Italy and is famous for its signature elongated shape. In the caciocavallo family, there is one kind that is so rare that at times it can be even more expensive than the finest of Parmesans: caciocavallo Podolico. This special type of caciocavallo is made with

“This is not a wine I would have pulled off the shelf for myself.” That was one of the observations voiced this week during a consumer wine tasting I led, virtually, for a financial services company. It was said with surprise and sincerity, and hearing the comment crystallized several points that have been percolating in

In the multibillion-dollar battle to create the next White Claw, THC in a can has all the buzz. And Ellen DeGeneres just made this “weed drink” famous. When Jake Bullock and Luke Anderson worked together as consultants at Bain & Co. in 2014, they argued over cannabis. While neither had been big pot smokers, they saw

For Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards’s all-female wine production team, Earth Day is every day. “We have a holistic way of looking at sustainability,” says Zidanelia Arcidiacono, Pinot Noir winemaker for Sonoma-Cutrer. Arcidiacono not only makes the winery’s award-winning Pinot Noir, but she also is in charge of the winery’s sustainability program. This Sonoma winery not only produces “certified sustainable”

Whether it’s women, pot or just boozing it up for breakfast, if you can wrap a beer fest around it, Hop Culture will find a way to do it. Now, the beer-lifestyle brand behind Beers With(out) Beards, 420 Craft Beer Festival and Juicy Brews Saturday Morning is hosting what appears to be the first significant

You won’t find New Realm Brewing on the Brewers Association’s list of the 50 largest craft breweries in America. In fact, you can’t even find the company’s beer outside of Georgia, Virginia, one coastal market in North Carolina and soon, South Carolina. However, the Atlanta-based beer company – which over the last several months has

The kind of stars Washington, D.C. traditionally respects are the ones found on a flag or a military uniform. But the nation’s capital also has a bright culinary constellation and the Michelin Guide just released its annual ranking of the city’s finest restaurants, after a pandemic-induced hiatus. The guide itself will be completely virtual by way

Online grocery platform Misfits Market, founded in 2018 by Under 30 honoree Abhi Ramesh, announced today that it has raised a $200M Series C, thus becoming a unicorn (the company didn’t disclose the post-round valuation). The funding round was co-led by Accel and D1 Capital, with participation by existing investors including Valor Equity Partners, Greenoaks