By Leanne Italie, AP NEW YORK — Watch out world, the Girl Scouts are going digital to sell you cookies. For the first time in nearly 100 years, Girl Scouts of the USA will allow its young go-getters to push their wares using a mobile app or personalized websites. But only if their scout councils […]
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By AC Shilton, Outside Bold prediction: In 2015, we won’t drink our liquor. We’ll inhale it. Julie Palmer got the idea for the Vaportini—a device that vaporizes spirits—while traveling in Helsinki. A friend introduced her to the Finnish tradition of dumping vodka over the coals of a sauna, and she found the effect intoxicating. So […]
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By Eliza Barclay, NPR Before this season of overindulgence freights us with unwanted pounds or a glutton’s guilt complex, why not try the opposite of the holiday feast: the fast. Fasting need not be a punishing, multiday ordeal of deprivation. Increasingly, scientists are warming to the intermittent fast, which can be as brief as one […]
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El Dorado County produced fewer wine grapes than the last three years, but the quality is said to be high. Significant spring rains followed by consistent, slightly above average temperatures during the growing season marked one of the earliest harvests on record. “The quality of this year was outstanding,” Josh Bendick of Holly’s Hill Vineyards said […]
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By Will Lyons, Wall Street Journal Christmas isn’t a time to improvise. The holiday season is all about spending time with family and friends, basking in the warm glow of the familiar. It’s the same with wine. At this time of year, I like to pull out old favorites, confident in the knowledge that I know […]
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By Chris Macias, Sacramento Bee The words were like a corkscrew through the heart of a signature wine grape. “If anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving. I am not drinking any (bleeping) Merlot!” This seeing-red meltdown might be the second most famous movie line about wine (the top prize has to go to Hannibal Lecter and […]
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By Roberto A. Ferdman, Washington Post There’s no easy way to say this: You’re eating too much chocolate, all of you. And it’s getting so out of hand that the world could be headed toward a potentially disastrous (if you love chocolate) scenario if it doesn’t stop. Those are, roughly speaking, the words of two […]
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By Lindsay Abrams, Salon All those foods that will basically kill you as soon as your order them? Now they’re at least going to have to warn you first. The Food and Drug Administration, after much delay, has finally released its national calorie labeling requirements. As mandated under the Affordable Care Act, the rules, which […]
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By Alison Spiegel, Huffington Post Ask any chef or home cook what the single most important tool in the kitchen is and he or she will almost certainly give you the same answer: a chef’s knife. One, dependable all-purpose chef’s knife — and knowing how to use it — is going to make the biggest […]
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By Kathryn Reed An aroma wafted outside, making the cold, hungry diners even more eager to get inside. This was no ordinary dinner they were waiting for. A buzz filled the kitchen. Placemats were at each setting. Cans of whipping cream were at the ready to top the pumpkin pie. Nearly 50 volunteers helped pull […]
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