Food & Drink

After disposing of its beer and cider business, Kent-based Chapel Down delivered healthy results for the year to December 2022 as a purely wine-focused company. Revenue rose by 10% over the 12 months but accelerated in the second half to 14%, providing extra momentum moving into the current financial year. The record result of £15.6

The 2022 Washington Wine Grape Production Report has just been released, reflecting a 34% increase from the previous year. This follows the excitement of a big month for the winemakers of Washington State, who have just celebrated Taste Washington Wine Month encouraging customers and buyers to try a new-to-them-wine. “Winemakers and growers alike are thrilled

Lisbon-based designer and branding specialist RitaRivotti Design has earned gold and silver awards in the recent Pentawards packaging design competition with projects for Symington and the Serôdio Borges family wine estate. In 2021, Rovitti and her team were awarded the highest honor, a Platinum award, for their work with wine producer VINHO DO MAR. This

You might not expect to find a tea farm in Europe, but there is actually one off the coast of Portugal — in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The Azores islands have been synonymous with tea for over two centuries. The tropical climate and volcanic soil of these islands make for perfect growing conditions,

Chef Virgilio Martínez needs no introduction. Best known for his revered Lima-based restaurant, Central (#2 on World’s 50 Best Restaurants of 2022), Martínez has been a driving force in showcasing Peru’s unique flavors and immense biodiversity, which he executes through creating sensory-forward experiences at each of his establishments. While snagging a res in Lima may

Ever since the Montage Healdsburg rolled out the red carpet for hotel guests in the heart of Sonoma in 2021, the ante was instantly upped on service and hospitality in California Wine Country, not to mention dining and design. At the time, the first seeds had been planted on the real estate side with 40

Bettys is a 100-year-old chocolate shop in the UK. Every Easter the bakery celebrates by debuting a new chocolate egg creation. The eggs are decorated by hand, and they’re definitely not cheap. Here’s a look at how the company makes them. For more, visit: https://www.bettys.co.uk/chocolates MORE MAKING OF CONTENT: How Jelly Belly Jelly Beans Are

Once a sugar plantation and an industrial guava farm, Common Ground, on 80 acres of land tucked into a Kilauea neighborhood on Kaua’i’s North Shore, is a veritable regenerative agro-forest whose team dreams of creating a model for the “farm of the future.” Common Ground opened in 2018 as a “creative campus” intended to be

Though the whisky industry is more inclusive than ever before, fewer than 8% of distilleries in the U.S. are owned and operated by women. Regardless, dozens of hard-working women have helped build some of the brands we love and drink today. Defying the status quo and using their talents to revolutionize the industry, they have

Salt water taffy was developed in the late 1800s by Joseph Rowling in Atlantic City. Truth is this taffy has no salt water in it, and instead got its name from its proximity to beach waters, which obviously contain salt. Stores can run about 2,000 pounds of taffy a day. The process starts with corn

For years, Giada De Laurentiis has been sharing her secrets to making delicious food. From her Emmy award-winning Food Network shows to her New York Times bestselling cookbooks, De Laurentiis has brought us into her kitchen to share her love for Italian and California-style cooking. But what if you could have Giada in your own

London’s dining scene rivals any city in the world with its vast range of international restaurants. In addition to a new Soho restaurant excelling in Modern British cuisine, other new launches in the capital include the first outpost for an American seafood favorite, a second venture for a brilliant young Tel Aviv chef and a

We are less than a month out from the 2023 iteration of the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. The annual extravaganza convenes in the Bay Area between April 13th through the 15th and the results of the judging will begin trickling out on its website shortly thereafter. But today we’re looking back at what the

Half of the honey imported into the European Union, is suspected of being adulterated with sugar syrups, according to an investigation by European officials published on Thursday. The research, spearheaded by the European Commission’s Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC), revealed that 46% of the 320 samples of imported honey – taken

Following an unprecedentedly bad avian influenza season in the US, in combination with higher operating costs, egg prices have hit the roof. Some believe that reports of a crisis have been, well, over-egged. But it’s clear that the situation has hit many farmers, food businesses, and consumers hard, in a number of countries. One beneficiary

Résonance Vineyard, owned by Résonance Wines in Oregon’s Yamhill Carlton AVA, is rare. Certainly from the looks of it — situated in the beautiful rolling hills of the Willamette Valley, surrounded by old oaks dripping with sage-colored lichen — one can tell this is a special and well-cared-for place. But one of the most interesting

Two-Michelin-starred chef Tom Sellers (of Restaurant Story) has announced he’ll be partnering with Bang & Olufsen to launch a foodie pop-up unlike any other this April. For two weeks only, the visionary new pop-up will take over interior specialist Smallbone’s Luxury Pavilion in Knightsbridge and turn it into an uber-luxe cinema and restaurant. Following welcome

The Gumi Shuka, or GUM Market, is a large indoor market in Yerevan, Armenia, that tourists can visit. Locals come to the shuka to sell fresh and dried fruit like dried apricots and t’tu lavash, or fruit leather. You can also find walnut sujuk, basturma, lavash bread, herbs and spices, and a variety of meats

“How long will inaction define us,” ponders Dr. Agnes Kalibata. The Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the 2021 Food Systems Summit has joined me via Zoom to discuss the future of agriculture in Africa. I immediately pick up on her frustration with the inability of rich nations to follow through on emissions

Fruits and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet providing vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, dietary fiber and other benefits. They can also be quite delicious. Nutrition experts agree that many Americans should eat more of these foods, but that can be challenging for those with a busy lifestyle. But another reason that consumers hesitate