Food & Drink

When I visited Cain Vineyard & Winery in 2018 during the flourishing February pruning season, there was much reflection from the team about the wildfires that had devastated parts of Northern California’s wine country in 2017, just months prior. Cain Vineyard & Winery exists on a bowl-shaped, nature-swaddled property in the Spring Mountain District of Napa Valley.
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Hard seltzer brand Vizzy is rolling out a major inclusivity campaign, appointing notable drag star Priyanka as the brand’s community impact director. With Priyanka leading the charge, the Molson Coors-backed hard seltzer brand is rolling out a creative grant program, offering funding, mentorships and media placements for LGBTQ+-produced art projects. This announcement comes just days
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This week Sam Fox, the Phoenix-based restaurateur who has been nominated 11 times for the James Beard Award as Outstanding Restaurateur, unveiled the much-anticipated plans for his first-ever hotel property, The Global Ambassador. In 2019, Fox sold his wildly successful Fox Restaurant Concepts to the Cheesecake Factory for a tidy $353 million. His nose for
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The #MeToo movement has finally exploded onto the craft beer scene and it’s reverberating around the country in unexpected ways. In Philadelphia, it’s shaking up the board of Philly Loves Beer (PLB), the powerful organization that hosts Philly Beer Week and myriad events throughout the year.  As of Friday afternoon, two board members have quit.
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When restaurateur John Philips heard one morning this month that Las Gemelas, his new Washington, D.C., taqueria, was getting a visit from Small Business Administration officials, he thought it was curious how many plainclothes secret service agents showed up in advance. It all made sense when President Joe Biden walked through the doors instead. President
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This article is co-authored with Sara Farley, Managing Director, Integrated Operations, Food Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation. Since the middle of the last century, the world’s approach to getting food on the table has focused first and foremost on productivity. We have expanded access to affordable food by ramping up agricultural production by any means possible.
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James Packer’s Crown Resorts has rejected Blackstone Group’s A$8.4 billion ($6.5 billion) offer to acquire the Australian casino giant, while considering the merger proposal made by Star Entertainment Group last week. Star’s merger proposal came hours after Blackstone raised its takeover offer to A$12.35 per share from A$11.35 each. “The board has unanimously concluded that
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