Food & Drink

Adam Orman and Fiore Tedesco are a couple of friends who, despite hailing from very different Northeast upbringings, found common ground in their love for family, traditions, music and food. Tedesco’s fascination with food began rolling meatballs with his Italian grandmother in her kitchen at age three, moving up to making fresh cheeses and sausages

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An elderly couple from Malaysia have passed away after consuming poisonous pufferfish, leading their family to call for stricter regulations on the dish. The couple, Ng Chuan Sing and Lim Siew Guan, had unknowingly purchased at least two pufferfish from an online vendor on March 25, according to officials in the state of Johor. They

If you’re traveling in Italy this week, you’ll have a front-row seat to many of the religious and cultural traditions associated with the Easter holiday. But another bonus of spending Easter in Italy is that it offers a unique opportunity to savor some of the specialty foods associated with the holiday. From north to south,

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Every night before he goes to bed, Rich Trumka Jr. reads a list of death reports. He’s a commissioner at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a key regulatory agency that oversees the safety of tens of thousands of products, from batteries to baby cribs. Trumka’s job to uncover the ways our household items can

It’s spring, finally, and the first holiday of the season is here. Take a look at these easy cocktails you can make at home for your Easter celebration and moving forward into sunny outdoor days. Mojito 75 Wax Myrtle’s at The Thompson Hotel, Austin, Texas “Imagine that a Mojito and a French 75 caught spring

The Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Rajasthan, India, is one of the holiest Sufi sites in the world. There, devotees cook a sweet rice dish in a deg, or cauldron, for the thousands of pilgrims who visit the shrine each day. The cauldron is one of the largest in the world, measuring 37 feet wide and

Are you taking your vodka seriously? You certainly should be if you consider yourself a fan of craft spirits. It might seem ludicrous to suggest the category is having a moment. After all it has remained the best-selling segment of liquor in the US for decades. But in 2021 the very definition of the liquid

This week in Napa Valley the RISE climate and wine symposium series kicked off, featuring headline speaker, Jancis Robinson, MW. Known as one of the world’s greatest wine writers and trend predictors, Robinson spoke for an hour on what the global wine industry could do to mitigate climate change. Her presentation highlighted a number of

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When winemaker Jeremy Carter co-founded Tarpon Cellars in 2017, he wanted to make a little noise in the normally harmonious world of Napa wines. Not content to follow the lead of most wineries in the region and focus solely on big-shouldered Cabernets and silky smooth Chardonnays, he decided to step off to the side of

Are you planning a Peeps show this Easter weekend? Well, you may want to look at the warning recently issued by Consumer Reports to all peeps, meaning people. They are reminding folks that purple and pink Peeps with a capital “P” have Red Dye Number 3 in them. And Red Dye No. 3 ain’t like

From calorie count to portion sizes, we wanted to find out all the differences between Wendy’s in Japan and the US. This is Food Wars. Portions 00:09 Prices 02:01 Exclusives 3:23 Nutrition 18:18 Ingredients 19:44 MORE FOOD WARS VIDEOS: US vs Japan Burger King | Food Wars Eating Every US vs Japanese Kit Kat Flavor

If the new Barbie movie trailer has you hyped, a new immersive experience can help you live out all your Barbie dreams. A brand new Malibu Barbie Cafe is slated to open in both New York and Chicago this summer. The family friendly pop-up restaurant will offer a menu created by Master Chef semi-finalist Becky

Drinks International, a U.K. publication for drinks buyers in its sixth decade, has recently announced its 13th edition of the most admired wine brands. Topping the list is Marchesi Antinori, the first Italian winery to hold the highest spot. No stranger to accolades, Antinori nel Chianti Classico recently earned first place in the World’s Best

The Food Wars Team, Harry Kersh and Joe Avella, make McDonald’s original recipe fries. We’ve spent weeks tracking down the original McDonald’s fries recipe, recreating everything from the famous Formula 47 to the correct variety of potato, and we wanted to test this recipe against the modern McDonald’s fries you’re used to. McDonalds’s fries original

If someone is making some cookies or some cake, don’t open your mouth, point to it, and say, “Batter up!” Otherwise, you could join the 12 people across 11 states who have recently gotten sick in the latest Salmonella outbreak. That because raw cake batter and cookie dough are the suspected culprits behind this outbreak

Phrases like “complex booze-free beverages infused with herbs and adaptogens to help you unwind” seem familiar territory these days, given all the nonalcoholic (NA) and ready-to-drink (RTD) brands entering the market. However, Curious Elixirs was thinking about ingredients and their purpose long before the current crop of competitors hit local retail shelves. JW Wiseman, founder

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