Food & Drink

Moonshot crackers and cheese plate. Bry Photography Can you make a packaged food product that’s (genuinely) good for the planet, socially just, and tastes amazing? Julia Collins thinks it’s possible and she wants to prove her theory with Moonshot crackers, the ”world’s first totally climate-friendly food brand,” launched at the end of 2020. The sustainable snack is organic,
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Rosé Champagne Photo ©Tom Hyland I’m usually not one to write one of those holiday-themed wine articles. You know the type – best wines to pair with your turkey on Thanksgiving or the top gift wines for Christmas. So why am I writing an article on sparkling rosé for Valentine’s Day? Because I love these
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These sparkling wines make a flirtatious statement Freshen up for Valentine’s Day! Courtesy of producers With most (if any) flirting taking place on virtual first dates or behind face masks, our first Valentine’s Day in a pandemic calls for finding other ways to get fresh. Here are a few bottles that can help break the
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To continue this week’s series on Valentine’s Day, The COVID Edition, we’re continuing the conversation with Regine T. Rousseau, sommelier, author of the poetry collection Searching for Cloves and Lilies: The Wine Edition and CEO of Shall We Wine, an event-planning and wine demonstration company based in Chicago. The Valentine holiday, always a curious one
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Port is a classic accompaniment to a cheese board, but consider the versatile Portuguese wines for … [+] other pairings. The Fladgate Partnership Just in time for Valentine’s Day, The Fladgate Partnership has released three exceptional 2018 Vintage Ports to fire up romance at-home: Taylor Fladgate Classic Vintage 2018, Fonseca Guimaraens Vintage 2018 and Croft
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An interior of the Northbrook,Illinois outlet of Roti, Bowls, Salads, Pita. Courtesy of Roti, ect. When Justin Seamonds was named CEO of Roti Modern Mediterranean in February 2020, the pandemic wasn’t on anyone’s mind—not just yet anyway. But in the span of about a month, Covid-19 was closing down 30 of its 42 company-owned restaurants (none
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Florida, Orlando, KFC and Pizza Hut fast food restaurant sign. (Photo by: Jeffrey … [+] Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Yum Brands YUM reported its Q4 earnings Thursday morning, a report highlighted by the global restaurant giant’s record-high digital sales, which totaled $17 billion for 2020
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A wine writer and her mentor share a bottle of wine without drinking it Wine is a taste but it’s also a memory IllustrationL Julia Lea My annual birthday tribute to someone who taught me more about wine than any textbook I’ve ever read. Many people meet their mentors in offices. I met mine over
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Boston Beer has purchased Super Bowl airtime to promote its Samuel Adams Wicked Hazy IPA Boston Beer Company For the first time in 37 years, football fans across the U.S. won’t see Budweiser’s iconic Clydesdales during Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast — at least not the ones owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev. Instead, A-B will donate the
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It wasn’t that long ago that putting the words “good” and “non-alcoholic beer” in the same sentence brought snorts of derision from anyone in earshot. It just wasn’t possible. What NA beer there was on the market was terrible watered-down slop that almost instantly disappointed anyone that tried it.   As someone who worked in
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Americans are expected to eat 1.42 billion wings while watching the Kansas City Chiefs take on the … [+] Tampa Bay Buccaneers for Super Bowl LV this Sunday. (Photo: Getty) getty There was certainly no shortage of shortages in 2020 during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Toilet paper? Disinfectants? Flour? Yeast? Cotton swabs? Covid-19 vaccines? Seemingly
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Sazerac House, the company’s wildly impressive 51,987-sf cocktail museum-slash distillery-slash … [+] corporate headquarters in New Orleans Sazerac Not since prohibition has the alcohol industry faced such drastic changes as it has in 2020. The pandemic quickly yielded a major shift in how beverage brands do business; shuttering on-premise outlets and bolstering the rise of
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