By Mike Dunne, Sacramento Bee We wine writers devote entirely too much space to wines and the vintners who make them, not enough to grapes and the farmers who grow them. Well, then, let’s catch up with Ron Mansfield, who farms 300 acres of wine grapes on and about Apple Hill in El Dorado County. […]
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By Charles Passy, MarketWatch Is the no-tip movement at restaurants reaching, well, a tipping point? In recent years, such renowned restaurants as Thomas Keller’s Per Se in New York and French Laundry in Yountville, Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse in Berkeley, and Grant Achatz’s Alinea in Chicago have put no-tip policies in place. So did the […]
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By Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee UC Davis has made a name for itself researching beverages people use to relax – like wine and beer. Now it’s turning its attention to one Americans use to get wired: coffee. On March 11, a roster of eight UC Davis scientists will come together for a research conference run […]
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By Dana Hull, San Jose Mercury News With 2013 the driest year on record and 2014 possibly worse, the devastation of California’s drought is trickling down to crops, fields, farmers markets, grocery stores — and the kitchen table. While it’s too early to tell precisely how much the drought will push up household grocery bills, […]
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By Allison Aubrey, NPR Americans who ate a diet rich in animal protein during middle age were significantly more likely to die from cancer and other causes, compared with people who reported going easy on foods such as red meat and cheese, fresh research suggests. The study published Tuesday in the journal Cell Metabolism, was […]
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By Latoya Dennis, NPR What’s in a name? It’s an age-old question Juliet once asked Romeo in Shakespeare’s famed play. Today, it’s a serious question between the U.S. and the European Union, which has said it wants U.S. food makers to stop using European names. But depending on what food you’re talking about, a name […]
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By Kathryn Reed One of the great things about Lake Tahoe is soup season lasts a long time. With there being so many soups in the world, it’s possible to have a different one nearly every night. And they also make for great leftovers. Sometimes I will increase the ingredients to ensure I have leftovers. […]
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By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee Just months after Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a measure compelling bartenders and chefs to don gloves when handling ready-to-eat food, the bill’s author has responded to a food industry uproar by unveiling an effort to undo the change. “It didn’t sound that dissimilar to the existing law, […]
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By Duane D. Stanford, Bloomberg Joe Six-Pack is getting some love again. MillerCoors LLC and Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, after years of focusing on craft ales, ciders and imports, are paying more attention to the working man’s drink of choice: cheap beer. The two brewers, which account for three-quarters of the U.S. beer industry, will boost […]
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By Ryan Jaslow, CBS Nutrition fact labels are finally undergoing a makeover. The Food and Drug Administration has proposed new changes to labels on food packaging that are aimed at making them easier to understand — the first major update since about 1994. Under the changes, serving sizes will be made easier to understand, calories […]
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