In the heart of Normandy’s Pays d’Auge region, about an hour’s drive inland from the D-Day beaches on France’s northern coast, lies the 200-person village of Camembert, surrounded by white-and-brown cows grazing in lush green… The End to a French Cheese Tradition?
The travel host Anthony Bourdain, whose memoir “Kitchen Confidential” about the dark corners of New York’s restaurants started a career in television, died on Friday at 61. For the past several years, Mr. Bourdain hosted… Anthony Bourdain, Chef, Travel Host and Author, Is Dead at 61
You can’t copyright a recipe. It’s why the 23-year-old apprentice pharmacist who invented the banana split never got rich when Walgreen’s took the idea nationwide, or why chef Dominique Ansel trademarked the word “Cronut” to… This Brilliant Cooking Site Solves The Biggest Problem with Recipes
Non-vintage wine is an odd concept. If wine is made through annual cycles, culminating in an autumn harvest, it always has a vintage, right? Not in Champagne, where at least 75 percent of the production… HOW TO TELL THE AGE OF NON-VINTAGE CHAMPAGNE
Laboratory analyses can’t identify anything special about the water Hangar One Vodka Distillery collects from Bay Area fog to produce its limited edition Fog Point Vodka. But head distiller Caley Shoemaker can. She says it’s… To capture the Terrior of San Francisco, One Distiller is Capturing Fog to make Vodka
A series of undulating mounds sinks into the grass, organic edges echoing the surrounding topography — a subterranean lair camouflaged to the specifications of a Bond villain. Inside, beyond the entranceway, a cavernous atrium beckons… The Macallan Opens a New Distillery and Visitor Center Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before
Aida Batlle grows coffee on her family’s farm in the hills surrounding El Salvador’s Santa Ana Volcano. Like generations before her, she had little use for the skin that encases the beans, so she’d turn it into cheap… Coffee Waste Is Now Fetching a 480% Premium Over Coffee Itself
In May of 1995, Ruth Patras realized that something was wrong with her 5-week-old daughter, Ciara. Initially happy and healthy, about a month after Ciara was born, the whites of her eyes started to turn… Kombucha’s unlikely rise from Soviet elixir to modern-day miracle drink
Chris Sayer pushed his way through avocado branches and grasped a denuded limb. It was stained black, as if someone had ladled tar over its bark. In February, the temperature had dropped below freezing for… Are avocados toast?
A heavenly stay! Once the home of the holy, these former monasteries, churches, convents, and temples have been converted into beautifully restored hotels with well-preserved original features and historic souls. Read more