Food & Drink

Vermont-based mega ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s – seller of fan favorites like Chunky Monkey and Half Baked – has committed to paying farmers a living income for their cocoa beans in West Africa, a bold step in an industry that has shied away from making minimum payment commitments to farmers. Typically farmers are

Jordan Rondel founded the Caker in 2010 in Auckland, New Zealand. The Caker Boxed cake mixes don’t have the most glamorous reputation, and that’s precisely why Jordan and Anouk Rondel think the Caker stands out. The two sisters have expanded the baking business from their hometown of Auckland, New Zealand to Los Angeles with the

Clif Bar & Company announced today that Rizal Hamdallah will join as the company’s first-ever Chief Innovation Officer, effective November 23, 2020. Rizal Hamdallah will join Clif as the company’s first-ever Chief Innovation Officer Clif Bar & Company It’s hard to imagine a world before bars were everywhere, but in 1992 there were less than

As demand for plant-based products surge, Beyond Meat is making sure it keeps its health-conscious consumers coming back. The company today announced it will be releasing two new lean burger lines next year. Beyond’s latest iterations will now have about 3 grams of saturated fat in its leanest version (55% less than 80/20 beef) and

Eileen’s Special Cheesecake in NYC makes New York City’s best cheesecakes. Eileen Avezzano opened the shop in the 1970s and has been selling cheesecakes ever since. Celebrity chefs, like Bobby Flay, have praised her cakes as the best in NYC, a city famously known for cheesecake. Learn more about Eileen’s Special Cheesecake: http://www.eileenscheesecake.com/ —————————————————— #Cheesecake

The best new release rye whiskies of 2020 Photo Illustration: Brad Japhe After taking a look at the best bourbons of 2020, it’s now time to fix our gaze upon another mashbill, altogether. We’re talking, of course, about the other classic style of American whiskey: rye. No disrespect intended; long gone are the days in

getty The hospitality sector’s protests around the world over bans on their activities, limiting them at best to selling takeaways, contrasts with the scientific evidence: well-meaning restaurant and bar owners insist they have complied scrupulously with health and safety measures, but there is no getting away from the fact that a business where people must

Dresden, Germany — Illustration of a beer garden from the 19th century. getty What did Tudor queens eat? Why is Twitter such a hellscape of inhumanity? How do small businesses make themselves more accessible to the deaf or transgendered communities?  These questions may sound completely unrelated but they all have one thing in common: they’re

Lunchbox CEO Nabeel Alamgir Lunchbox If you want an idea of what the restaurant industry could look like in a post-pandemic environment, look at where the money is going. A number of funding rounds have taken place in the past couple of weeks, with a significant amount of that haul going to online ordering companies.

Pink Grapefruit Mixer Fever Tree These are unprecedented times. And we’re all facing historic challenges. But for the food and beverage industry, the threat is nothing short of existential. By August of 2020 it was already estimated that nearly 16,000 restaurants across the country had shuttered permanently since the start of the pandemic. That number

As the President of AB’s Beyond Beer, Fabricio Zonzini leads a portfolio of brands ranging from Babe … [+] to Cutwater to Kombrewcha. Beyond Beer As President of Beyond Beer at Anheuser-Busch, Fabricio Zonzini oversees a portfolio of new and groundbreaking products that allows A-B to predict consumer trends before they start. With products ranging from

Anna Mains My partner and I established a sanity-saving tradition early on in the pandemic: We made it a point to set aside a good chunk of our late afternoons to enjoy happy hour together—with absolutely zero regard for the President’s tweets, the onslaught of work emails, or the blitzkrieg of bad news on CNN

There are now three ongoing E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks with one possibly linked to Romaine lettuce. … [+] (Photo: Getty) getty When a single Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak is occurring, here’s one way of looking on the bright side. You can always say, “at least there aren’t two E. coli outbreaks happening, right now.” And if

From calorie count to portion sizes, we compared everything on the UK and US Burger King menus to find out the big differences between the two. MORE FOOD WARS VIDEOS: US vs UK Subway | Food Wars US vs UK Domino’s | Food Wars US vs UK KFC | Food Wars —————————————————— #BurgerKing #FoodWars #FoodInsider

It’s lovely when design and sustainability intersect, which is the case with Terra Kaffe’s super-automatic, podless espresso machine, which has offset the use of more than one million single-serve pods to date. And now, the brand has just secured $4 million in funding through a partnership with The Seed Lab, a consumer venture-capital fund based

So Good So You has raised a $14.5 million series C round amid rising consumer demand for … [+] immunity-boosting beverages. So Good So You In the food and beverage industry, no buzzword is as sexy as immunity-boosting these days. Wellness shots incumbent So Good So You (SGSY) that owns a 25% stake in the

Topline Vegan burger-maker Beyond Meat spooked investors Monday afternoon with a horrible third-quarter earnings report, but analyst upgrades on Tuesday give a number of reasons to hold off on the bearish judgment–for now.  Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown celebrates with guests after ringing the opening bell at Nasdaq on May … [+] 2, 2019 in

McDonald’s is rolling out a new strategy that includes a crispy fried chicken sandwich. (Photo by … [+] Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty Images Fifteen months ago, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen took the fast-food world by storm by introducing its fried chicken sandwich. It faced down Chick-fil-A, the industry’s chicken leader,

Topline McDonald’s will develop its own plant-based burger called the McPlant, as the market for meatless alternatives continues to grow and fast-food giants continue to make big bets on plant-based products. McDonalds restaurant in Londons Oxford Street. Restaurants are only allowed to open for takeaway … [+] orders during the Englands second lockdown. Photo by

Over two decades again, Joel Clark and his brother John took their mom’s wholewheat pancake recipe … [+] and turned it into a thriving business. Kodiak Cakes Over two decades ago, Joel Clark and his brother John took their mom’s wholewheat pancake recipe and turned it into a business. Today, the business has grown from those