Food & Drink

Ricotta is a very versatile cheese that can be eaten in very different ways. And, technically speaking, it’s not even really a cheese, because it comes from the liquid whey when the milk is curdled. Bigger dairies that make cheese often consider liquid whey just a leftover product and use it to feed livestock or

The drought has dragged on for a long time. Last year, orchard farmers in California’s Central Valley destroyed trees that were dying due to lack of water. This year, many more farmers did the same. Extreme weather and high fuel prices have been daunting obstacles for American food producers, but the good news is wheat

Agroecology has several definitions, but in essence, it is farming with nature rather than against it. It promotes diversity, resilience, social values, cultural practices, and circularity. Sounds great, right? At a recent event by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, Pierre Ferrand of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization asked an illuminating question:

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Drought wears on you mentally. Nebraska organic farmer Kevin Fulton told me that earlier this week, as I asked him about his 28 years in the business for my latest feature, out this morning. What he shared with me was serious: “You’re working hard to keep

Topline Yogurt giant Chobani scrapped plans to go public, the company revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday, giving up on an initial public offering once reportedly valued at more than $10 billion amid the cooling market. Key Facts Chobani did not give a reason for the reversal in the filing, but a

Topline The stock market tanked on Friday despite the August jobs report coming in slightly lower than expected and dropping significantly from last month, which did little to ease investor concerns about more aggressive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve plunging the economy into a recession. Key Facts Stocks gave up gains in the

Digitally native consumer brands touting flashy 3D rendered product images and interactive Instagram posts seemed to enjoy a great party during the peak of the pandemic when shoppers flocked to purchase online. Then Apple’s AAPL iOS 14 update in 2021 that restricted advertisers’ usage of consumer data, coupled with high logistic costs, supply chain constraints

Matthew Stafford’s 2021 NFL season was a bit of a fairytale. After spending 12 years with the Detroit Lions, the 2009 No. 1 overall draft pick was traded to the Los Angeles Rams and promptly led his new team to a Super Bowl title. That’s not to say there are hard feelings for his old

Cabo is hot right now — for culinary experiences, for luxury hotels, and for an always-relaxing beach vibe. And there is no place more enticing at the moment than Chileno Bay Resort & Residences, Auberge Resorts Collection. This relatively new property (2016), which was several years in the making, strikes just the right balance between

The long Labor Day weekend, happening in just a few days here in the US, bookends the summer season and at least symbolically brings it to a close. From a wine and wine business perspective, it’s an appropriate moment to consider a few of the themes that are front of mind this year when it

A food festival like no other is slated for this fall in Sedona, Arizona. The first-ever Mystical Pizza Festival, hosted by chef-owner Lisa Dahl, will celebrate the grand opening of her second Pisa Lisa location in Sedona’s Village of Oak Creek with a three-day hyper-local pizza party. From Friday, September 16 through Sunday, September 18,

The Trasimeno Rosato Festival enjoyed a third edition during the summer of 2022, a event that brought together the local wineries, restaurants, and bars in the picturesque and historic town of Castiglione del Lago. This village is on the shore of Lake Trasimeno (Lago di Trasimeno in Italian), which is at the heart of the

When it comes to exciting food and drink, the San Francisco scene always delivers in spades. But this fall feels like a particularly auspicious time for the city as a number of relative newcomers are just starting to hit their stride. Whether you’re a longtime local or an eager tourist you ought to take note.

Topline The stock market moved lower once again on Monday—following a sharp selloff on Friday in which the Dow plunged 1,000 points—as investors continue to worry about ongoing interest rate hikes and tighter monetary policy from the Federal Reserve potentially throwing the economy into a recession. Key Facts The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down

It’s an auspicious time for Japanese cocktail culture here in the United States. The style, celebrated for its elegance and attention to technical detail, has been flourishing in the bar rooms of New York and Chicago for the better part of a decade. Earlier this year, two separate books on the subject collected top honors;

Americans are traveling like never before. This summer saw historic increases in airfare purchases as cooped up adventurers made up for time and experience lost to the pandemic. In July, airplane ticket sales were 35% higher than they were in July of 2019, according to industry data. This seismic shift away from people purchasing goods

While the American craft beer scene has indeed loomed large over the last few decades, and rightfully so if I may say so, there are still a ton of great brews spread across the globe. That’s why it behooves any lover of tasty brews to pay attention to other beer competitions besides the Great American

Sahadi’s, a 122-year-old market, serves fresh Middle Eastern cuisine and other specialties in Brooklyn. People seek it out for hummus, dried fruit, and freshly roasted nuts. The Sahadis rely on family living in the Middle East to source many of the local Syrian products that are shipped by boat and sold in the store today.

There is no simple definition of the “right way to farm” because any answer would have to reflect the constraints of each growing region (soil type, weather, infrastructure…) and the resources and markets available to the farmers. To make things even more complicated there are many possible combinations of specific farming practices to consider including

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin I recently decided to test out one of those Instagram-advertised boxes of grass-fed meat, and modern shipping delays rendered it all defrosted by the time the meat arrived on my Manhattan doorstep. So what did I do? I cooked. I cooked like I was racing against