Food & Drink

When Food Network chef Jet Tila was in his twenties, he paid the bills by working in college foodservice. Specifically, he worked for Compass Group, the parent company of Chartwells, which provides dining services at schools across the country. Tila was influential in his time there: “I actually wrote some of the first training for

During the pandemic, even celebrity chefs had to pivot. Celebrity chef Scott Conant typically travels to food festivals and TV studios, and makes guest appearances here and abroad. He also racks up quite a few frequent flyer miles shuttling between his restaurants in Arizona and New York. Like many working parents, his lifestyle always entails

When the Jonas Brothers (Joe, Kevin and Nick) go on tour—like they are right now—backstage snacks are a must. Favorites include dark chocolate, Mindright bars (a superfood startup that Joe has invested in) and a once top-secret popcorn recipe that launches as a direct-to-consumer CPG product today.  Rob’s Backstage Popcorn, a specialty popcorn brand, is

Thiru Kumar serves up delicious Indian dosas to his loyal fans in Washington Square Park daily. Better known as the Dosa Man, Kumar has been selling inexpensive street eats since 2001. His food cart, NY Dosas, is listed in 42 countries’ guidebooks, and he has fan clubs in California and Japan. MORE NEW YORK EATS

Ian Schrager is a legend of New York City nightlife. So when he announced the launch of his own PUBLIC Hotel back in 2017, expectations were sky high. The 367-room property in Manhattan’s Lower East Side did not disappoint, delivering on its promise to provide sleek and stylish luxury at an approachable price point. Now

When Woodchuck Hard Cider first launched in Proctorsville, Vermont thirty years ago, the beverage business had a vastly different look and feel. This was before the craft beer and spirits boom; few drinkers had ever even heard the abbreviation IPA, and it would be decades before anyone could tell you what RTD stood for. And

Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory in San Francisco makes 10,000 fortune cookies a day, but you won’t find them in any restaurant. Instead, the business relies on tourists who want to see the process that goes into making the famous cookies. Owner Kevin Chun isn’t too concerned with making a profit either — he even

Amenia, New York is a quiet town of around 4,000 residents, situated less than a 2-hour drive north of NYC. It might as well be a world away. For city folks eyeing an ideal urban retreat, this Hudson Valley hideaway holds the ticket in the form of Troutbeck. Once a private estate, the stone-clad luxury

If you have an extra $275,000 lying around, The Dalmore has a deal for you: the brand just unveiled The Dalmore Decades 5 Piece Collection, a one-of-a kind, collection of five whiskies spanning five decades. The price tag: $275k. “Over the past 50 years, I have kept a watchful eye over our superlative inventory of rare

Elio’s Pizza is sold out of a mobile pizza oven in a pickup truck. Eleodoro Lopez found a liquor store that would let him park in its lot and started selling pizza out of it a few months ago. Now he’s gaining recognition for selling delicious Neapolitan-style pies for $10 each in Silver Lake. For

Anyone slightly tuned into the zeitgeist has spent the last few years watching hard seltzer’s meteoric rise. Brands like White Claw and Truly reign, as the category raked in U.S. sales of $4.3 billion. But hard seltzer is fizzing out, experts say. Boston Beer Co. SAM  pulled guidance, and Molson Coors TAP  axed its Coors-branded, beer-based seltzer. While hard

This Denver tycoon defied convention to crash the gates of construction, fast food and Major League Baseball. It’s a long way from her family’s two-room adobe house without indoor plumbing. Linda Alvarado wends her way, politician-style, to her seat at Major League Baseball’s 2021 All-Star Game, pausing to hug or chat up everyone from Roy

As a child, Debbie Wei Mullin was surrounded by the influences of her Vietnamese heritage. As she began her entrepreneurial journey later in life, she turned to that heritage to launch Copper Cow Coffee, a direct-to-consumer Vietnamese Coffee that is launching nationwide in Whole Foods. I sat down with Debbie, the CEO and Founder of Copper Cow

A sweet young woman walked in a vineyard side by side with her father, a man who had been her hero from as far back as she could remember, in vineyards that sat at almost 5,000 feet in elevation among the foothills of the Andes Mountains in Argentina. As the cold weather sent a chill

‘Tis the season. Whiskey fans the world over are eagerly awaiting the many special releases ready to hit shelves as the holidays approach. A perennial favorite among them is the Master’s Collection from Woodford Reserve. This annual one-off gives master distiller Chris Morris the opportunity to play around with everything from the corn to the cask.

True Scotch enthusiasts think of fall as a wonderful time to be alive—not because of leaf peeping and pumpkin picking excursions, mind you. But because it’s the time of year that Diageo, one of the world’s largest spirits companies, unveils its much-anticipated annual Special Releases collection—an initiative that started in 2001. This year the theme

Dr. Olga Barbosa is a biologist and ecologist, an expert on biodiversity in viticulture, which she says is “dependent on nature.” She recently contributed her perspective at a biodiversity roundtable arranged by Viña Tarapacá. The Chilean winery’s Fundo Rosario Estate vineyard is surrounded by the Altos de Cantillana range and the Maipo River, natural borders

Futuristic architecture reflects a new attitude about wine The wine region of Rioja in northern Spain is a terrific example of what’s old is new again. At 96 years old, she is the oldest Designation of Origin (DOC) in the country. But the current generation of winemaking rebukes that dusty image, making Rioja a hot

Farting is definitely not the worst thing that can happen when you have a lot of gas. In fact, farting may be the best thing. A case report published in the medical journal Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. showed how gas build-up in your intestines can be silent and deadly. In the case

Gifts for the wine lover in your life, including you! I’ve often thought that, like mothers and fathers have their own holidays, wine drinkers should have one, too. OK, there is National Wine Day on May 25, but that conflicts with too many competing events—the aforementioned parents plus all those grads and June brides. If