Food & Drink

In 2022, the Japanese sake export reached a record-high of 47.5 billion Japanese yen, an 18% increase from 2021 and a 452% jump from 2013. Despite such a dramatic surge in popularity, sake is only associated with Japanese restaurants to most Americans. The situation is particularly frustrating to Dassai’s producer Asahi Shuzo, which exported 15%
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When T.J. McIntyre, a well versed executive leading Colorado’s natural products industry for over two decades, was appointed to be the CEO of Bobo’s in 2016, the 13-year-old oat bars producer, which generated just under $10 million in annual sales at the time, has received multiple solicitation calls from potential acquirers. “There were a number
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To Fly By Jing founder and CEO Jing Gao, the mission behind her viral brand goes far beyond food. It stems from the magic of abundance, curiosity, and the ability to inspire change. While Gao is recognized as a chef, entrepreneur, culinary sensation, and renowned expert on Chinese cuisine thanks to her now ubiquitous brand
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Who doesn’t love a good value when it comes to wine? While trade publications such as the “State of the U.S. Wine Industry” report on the price-conscious purchasing habits of younger consumers—$15 for a bottle is the sweet spot—there’s no reason to relegate these bottles to the young and thrifty. Here are a few that
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Boisson, a leading non-alcoholic retailer in the United States, has received a $5 million bridge investment led by Pernod Ricard’s Convivialite Ventures. “Boisson plays a key role in the fast-growing non-alcoholic category, by discovering and curating the best non-alcoholic brands for consumers’,” shares Brandon Yahn, Partner at Convivialité Ventures. “The company helps the leading NA
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Start with these three building blocks for building your wine foundation We’ve all see a parody of the wine snob: an erudite personage, probably fancily dressed, holding the stemware just so and making declarations of numerous aromas and flavors—many of which are unfamiliar or improbable. River rock? (connoting minerality) Cat pee? (yes!) Barnyard? (Yes again
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Big, bold, bright, beneath the ground or brazenly above, here’s where you can read about some of the world’s best cellars. I recently visited what’s said to be the largest private wine cellar on the east coast, a place I had toured several years ago and now, with a bit more wine knowledge under my
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Mergers in the food and beverage industry have been going strong, with big F& B companies showing no shortage in their appetite for billion-dollar deals. J.M. Smucker Co. recently announced it would expand its family of brands significantly by acquiring Hostess for $5.6 billion, following a string of other acquisitions. And the urge to merge
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It’s the first day of fall and here I am, still drinking rosé! Don’t tell me you’ve consigned pink wine to the summer months, because that would be wrong. With so many regions across the globe making rosés from different varieties, there’s a good diversity of styles—some more structured and with deeper fruit expressions that
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The Brewers Association, the trade association representing America’s small and independent brewers, has announced the 263 breweries that won the 303 medals at the 2023 Great American Beer Festival, the largest beer competition in America. The annual competition is open to America’s craft breweries. The winners are announced on the last day of the annual
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There are not very many Americans still doing the farming that feeds our citizens and many others around the world. The legacy of the Homestead Act of 1862 persists in that many of those farmers still own land from those 160 acre grants that have been passed down for generations, but particularly for the “broad
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Remember the days when entrepreneurs opened either a separate restaurant, a bakery or gourmet shop and that was suffice to generate a profit. The trend these days is hyphenated businesses, combining several specialties, where multiple revenues flow to generate enough profit to sustain business. Welcome to Pasta Corner, which opened in midtown Manhattan, in proximity
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