Category: Food and Drink
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As the high-end wine market confronts the problem of counterfeiting, a professional wine “detective” and sommelier explains how she identifies counterfeit wines: fraud detection has nothing to do with the taste of a wine, Downey says. “If you’ve got something that’s been in a bottle for 40 or 50 or 100 years, there’s going to…
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I recently made a short but pleasant trip to Lucknow, a north Indian city with a diverse and varied history of song, dance and political intrigue. Lucknow is also famous for its fine cuisine which developed to please the discerning palates of its luxury loving Nawabs. The rulers, appointed by the Mughal kings of Delhi…
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Move over, BPA, make room for the new kid on the block: 4- MI ( the 'cute' name for 4-methylimidazole), a byproduct of the process used to create one of the coloring agents used in what is obliquely termed 'caramel color' on the ingredients list of many processed foods, most notably sodas like Coca Cola…
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Why do we watch food shows on TV? For a variety of reasons, as varied as the different offerings on the likes of The Food Network and The Learning Channel, analyzed to exhaustion by Akim Reinhardt on 3QD. I've come to the conclusion that I hate cooking, and would be entirely happy if I never…
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Coffee at Starbucks. It's advertised in three sizes. What wasn't obvious to me is that the sizes actually contain different concentrations of coffee. A tall (12 oz.) coffee has a shot of coffee, as does a grande (16 oz.), but the venti (20 oz.) coffee has two coffee-shots. So, depending on which size you get,…
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Brinjals, or aubergines or eggplant, as they are variously called in different parts of the world, are the center of a major brouhaha over biotech crops and their introduction in India, one of the most lucrative markets for seeds in the world. Bowing to the pressure of numerous activists and at least 10 state governments,…
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Courtesy of Librarians’ Internet Index (LII), this Times of London survey of fifty of the world’s best food blogs includes our own Anna’s uncle’s Serious Eats. Anna announced the blog here almost 2 1/2 years ago! Unrelated to food, LII is offering an award for renaming the site and its imminent merger with Internet Public…
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Kosher Coke is great, so isn't it even better if there are more such options? I was at Target today and saw a couple of interesting new Pepsi products: Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, "made with natural sugar." Sadly, it looks like these may not stick around: they're scheduled to be available only until…
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