Irish Steel Cut Oats with honey Credit: Flahavan’s A Flahavan’s advertisement from 1939 Credit: Flahavan’s Oats are a way of life for the Flahavan family. Their business dates back to 1785, a time when most villages in Ireland had their own small mill that exclusively serviced the immediate locality. “Farmers and their families would bring
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The iconic châteaux at Inglenook was completed in 1887. Inglenook 2011 marked Corison Winery’s 25th anniversary vintage, a growing season that founder and winemaker Cathy Corison calls “cool from start to finish” with rain in her Napa Valley vineyards in May and June. It was a small harvest, which chilly weather delayed by three weeks,
Photo: Willa’s Sisters Christina Dorr Drake and Elena Dorr Zienda grew up drinking homemade oat milk that their grandmother Willa created. As adults, when they couldn’t find an oat milk that measured up to one of their childhoods, they decided to make their own based on Willa’s 74-year-old recipe. In the past few years, oat
The Jamaican Jerk method of seasoning food is more popular now than ever. The authentic taste of scotch bonnet peppers and allspice berries infused with pimento wood, commonly featuring thyme, ginger, garlic and scallion, has taken diners beyond Jamaica’s roadside jerk stands, with their intoxicatingly delicious scents and repurposed steel drum grills, to supermarket shelves,
The pandemic has cut into Starbucks’ traffic, but there are some positive signs for the coffee … [+] giant. (Photo by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Like many food and beverage companies, Starbucks SBUX was battered by a disappearance of customers in 2020. Some couldn’t go to Starbucks because
OAX Original® comes in three different expressions, each in a gorgeous, collectible bottle. OAX Original® A Brooklyn and Mexico-based spirits company just debuted a limited-edition line of mezcales, crafted from 12 to 20-year-old agave plants, in collectable-worthy bottles. OAX Original® features three different styles of agave spirits: Arroqueño, which comes in a black bottle; Tobalá, which
Courtesy of Martha Stewart If you didn’t know any better, you might think Martha Stewart lives at a zoo—or at the very least, an animal sanctuary. Her sprawling Connecticut farm is home to hundreds of chicken and geese, 20 peacocks, lots of pigeons, horses, donkeys, and cats, but it’s the four dogs inside her house
The Detroit-style pizza is initially available at Pizza Hut as a limited-time offer with a price … [+] point starting at $10.99. Pizza Hut Pizza Hut doesn’t seem to be resting on its innovation laurels fresh off its Beyond Meat pizza launch in November. The chain today announced its new Detroit-style pizza, now available nationwide.
Is there a solution to the problem of child labor in the cocoa trade? Tony’s Chocolonely claims that there is, and it is sweet! Tony’s Chocolonely, a B-Corp and Fairtrade certified chocolate producer, states that there is and it is sweet. On January 25, 2021, Tony’s Chocolonely launched their ‘Sweet Solution’ chocolate bars to raise awareness
The United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (USDA ERS) International Food Security Assessment, 2020–2030: COVID-19 Update and Impacts on Food Insecurity report released in January 2021 reveals that 12.8 per cent of the Jamaican population is currently food insecure, equating to some 400,000 people. This is double pre-COVID-19 USDA ERS projections and an
The fastest-growing premium water brand in North America is ready to make a bigger splash. Flow Water today announced plans to go public. The Toronto-based company, founded just six years ago, is planning a reverse merger, with the stock expected to start to trade this spring. Aside from saving a lot of money in legal
Bruno Mars and Selva Ray Owner’s Reserve Selva Ray SelvaRey, the Panama rum brand co-owner by superstar Bruno Mars, launched a new “Owners Reserve” bottle this month. The run is a single-estate rum hand-selected from the cellars of SelvaRay’s Master Distiller, Don “Pancho” Francisco Fernandez. In terms of the name, Bruno is considered the “owner”
I tasted the wine blind, just before dinner was served. I tasted dark berries and some spices; the wine was powerful, fresh and lively. My guess was a 2016, maybe from the Rhône Valley. It turned out to be a Priorat from Spain, vintage 1998. I wasn’t disheartened; more amazed that the wine felt so
KIND Snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky has invested in egg white protein snacks company Quevos. ABC.com KIND Snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky has announced on Shark Tank that he’s investing in egg white protein snacks company Quevos through his own family office Equilibra. The billionaire businessman, who sold his nutrition bar company to the confectionery market incumbent
It’s one of the biggest growth markets in the world for wine, and we’re getting it completely wrong. That was the title of an article I wrote in this column two and a half years ago about the potential of wine in the African marketplace. Is that statement still true today? Is Africa still one
The poster for this year’s NYC Restaurant Week To Go iteration. NYC & Company As the restaurant industry struggles through another season under the gloom of Covid-19 related issues that have forced many operators to close their doors, the organizers of the oldest Restaurant Week program in the nation are debuting a revamped formula in
Photo Illustration: Kristin Tablang It pains me to admit this but I am not the kind of person who busts out the good china on say, a regular Tuesday night—not for a slapdash meal I haphazardly put together in thirty-ish minutes, after a particularly harried day. The same instinct often kicks in when I (prudently
Bart Watson, Chief Economist at the Brewers Association. Brewers Association Last year saw the craft brewing industry weather the biggest disruption to the alcohol industry since Prohibition took effect in 1920. To make sense of it all, I reached out to Bart Watson, the Chief Economist of the Brewer’s Association, the largest brewing trade association
Industrial Hemp being grown in Queenstown, MD getty In 2018, the hemp got a boost from that year’s Farm Bill when Congress legalized the cultivation of the crop. Now it is getting more good news after the USDA issued a new ruling raising the restricted ceiling of it’s Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — the principal psychoactive constituent
Snacklins now come in 4 flavors: Nacho, Chesapeake Bay, Barbeque, and Teriyaki (new). It also now … [+] comes in 3 oz. packs in addition to its .9 ounce package. Snacklins The snack market and bakery market in the United States accounts for a whopping $65 billion in annual sales. Yet, it is intensely competitive