Month: January 2023

Non-alcoholic beverages are becoming increasingly popular these days. According to Nielsen IQ, sales of non-alcoholic drinks in the US increased to $395 million, showing a 20.6% growth between 2021 and 2022. Many people drink non-alcoholic beverages to take better care of themselves, but how do you switch your favorite glass of beer, wine or cocktail

If your Valentine loves pasta as much as they love you, you know a pasta-themed gift is essential this Valentine’s Day. Get creative with pasta-themed wearables, accessories, kitchen items and more. Or just really excellent pasta. They’ll love it! Here’s what to gift your spaghetti sweetie for Valentine’s Day so they feel your amore. Pasta

Center-stage startups may soon become gamechangers, but their journey may already contain a valuable lesson for us all. Innovation Spotlight Dishare is a personalized, culinary health-sensitive platform based on social networks, crowdsourcing, and AI that leads users to better culinary choices. Startup Cofounder, CEO Bar Reuven, CTO Pavel Kirillov, and Head of Product, Andrew Amann

We’re one month into 2023, and this year’s top drink trends seem to be punctuated by premiumization and digital drinking. According to Whole Foods, there’s one more ingredient on the rise: Yaupon tea. Originally known as Cassina by the Timucua tribe, “Carolina tea” in England and “black drink” in Spain, Yaupon is a tea made

Each year the wine industry pours over one of the important analyses issued in the United States. Silicon Valley Bank State of the US Wine Industry Report which is written by Ron McMillan, executive vice president and founder of the bank’s wine division. The 2023 report, which is free to download, included an interesting historical

Even frequent travelers to Italy aren’t likely to have heard about the small village of Custoza and its rich wine heritage that is waiting to be discovered. Custoza is tucked—you might even say hidden—in the municipality of Sommacampagna, in the province of Verona, in the Veneto region of northeast Italy. It has a population of

A new year is when many people pledge to improve their diets – whether to better their own health or the planet’s. One aspect of our diets where we can generally give ourselves a break is how far our food has traveled from the point of production. These food miles make up only 5% of

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Happy Friday! We’ve almost made it! Take a moment to congratulate yourself. I know I’ve had a full week. What about you? My highlights included interviewing the CEO of the country’s largest fishing company, as well as a fun lunchtime talk with Northwestern M.B.A. students. We’re

Corporate consolidation in our food system is going on without most of us knowing. Massive companies are controlling a greater and greater proportion of food production. And at a time when we urgently need to be taking steps forward in protecting our climate, biodiversity, and workers, this sort of industrialization is actively pushing us backward.

As a kid growing up in Manila I was always given a mixture of hot water, honey, and lemon whenever I felt marginally under the weather—a non-alcoholic toddy, if you will. And while it didn’t always “cure” whatever ailed me, it certainly eased some discomfort and made things a tad more tolerable. (After all, the