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  • Hearty Red Wine with a Naughty Name
    Napa Valley winemaker Jayson Woodbridge — once hailed by Robert Parker as "One of California's (perhaps the world's) most flamboyant, talented, contrarian wine producers" — is best known for the intensely flavored,...

  • Japanese Sake Regions
    Hokkaido Japan's northernmost prefecture and second-largest island. A source of quality sake, as well as Sapporo beer. Akita In northwestern Honshu, Japan's largest island, the source of aromatic Akita Komachi rice and of quality sake. Niigata...

  • South African Wine Regions
    Wine was being made in South Africa as early as the mid-17th century, and an unfortified dessert wine called Constantia, made from a blend of white wine grapes on the country's southwestern coast, became internationally famous in the 1800s. The...

  • South American Wine Regions
    Chile The modern Chilean wine industry dates from the 1980s, but wine has been made in this long, narrow strip of a country, on South America's southwestern coast, since the Spanish first brought the grapevine there in the 1500s. French and German...

  • Other European Wine Regions
    Austria One of the great white wine successes of recent years has been the international acceptance of Austrian white wine made from a grape with the formidable name of grüner veltliner (sometimes abbreviated by American wine-buyers as "gru-ve...

  • Israeli Wine Region
    Anyone who has read the Bible knows how old winemaking is in Israel, but the modern-day wine industry there was launched by no less imposing a figure than the Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, then proprietor of the legendary Bordeaux estate Château...

  • Spain and Portugal Wine Regions
    Spain Rioja Until recent years the most famous Spanish red wine by far, Rioja is made in a region covering about 200 square miles, including portions of La Rioja, Navarra, and the Basque Country. Though white and rosé wines are produced here, the...

  • Italian Wine Regions
    Piedmont Piedmont produces red wines of equal (some would say superior) quality to those of Tuscany, especially the two giants made from the nebbiolo grape, barolo and barbaresco, which come from the Langhe region around the city of Alba. These wines are...

  • Tuscany Wine Region
    One of the most romantic, historically rich, and fantasized-about regions in Europe, Tuscany, on Italy's north-central western coast, also produces some of the best and most famous red wines in the world, notably chianti, brunello di Montalcino, and...

  • Other French Wine Regions
    Champagne  The most famous and romantic of all French wines, champagne is sparkling wine made from chardonnay, pinot noir, and pinot meunier grapes by the so-called méthode champenoise, or champagne method, in northeastern France. (Four other...

  • Rhône Wine Regions
    Côte Rôtie  The northernmost wine region of France's Rhône Valley, Côte Rôtie — literally "roasted hillside," a reference to its exposure to the sun — produces what are often considered the...

  • Bordeaux Wine Regions
    Saint-Estèphe  The northernmost winemaking commune in Bordeaux's Médoc region, known for its well-rounded, tannic, long-lived wines (one example, Château Montrose, is famous for remaining "closed" for decades before...

  • New Zealand Wine Regions
    Hawkes Bay Located on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, Hawkes Bay is the country's oldest wine-growing region and its second largest. Though some chardonnay is produced, it is known above all for its red wines, in particular its rich...

  • Australia Wine Regions
    Coonawarra  A terra rossa (red clay) vineyard region on the so-called Limestone Coast of southeastern Australia, between Adelaide and Melbourne, Coonawarra is famous above all for its cabernet sauvignon — rich and elegant, with plenty of fruit...

  • Other U.S. Wine Regions
    New York The second-largest wine-producing state in America, after California (way after California, with an annual output of around 27 million gallons, compared with California's 635 million), New York is also the site of the country's first...

  • Washington Wine Regions
    Columbia Valley This large viticultural area, covering about 11 million acres with some 17,000 acres of vines, extends over a large part of central and southern Washington (and over the border slightly into Oregon). It lies at the same latitude as...

  • Oregon Wine Regions
    Willamette Valley Known above all for its elegant pinot noirs, this cool, damp viticultural area is home to about 200 wineries and more than 12,000 acres of vines. The majority of Oregon's producers are located here. Umpqua Valley The first pinot noir...

  • Other California Wine Regions
    Santa Maria Valley  This wine region, northwest of Santa Barbara, produces excellent pinot noir and chardonnay, but has also become known for its Rhône varieties (syrah, mourvèdre, viognier, grenache blanc and noir, etc.). Susceptible to...

  • Napa and Sonoma Wine Regions
    Napa Valley The most famous American wine region, and one of the most highly regarded in the world. The first grapes were planted here, northeast of San Francisco (with a climate influenced by an arm of San Francisco Bay), in the mid-19th century; one of...

  • Fish Fights, Goat Meat, and GMOs at the Sustainable Foods Institute
    The second and last day of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Sustainable Foods Institute, on Friday, May 17, was definitely land-based — with one notable exception. The morning began with a visit to the Earthbound Farms 2 ½-acre showplace...

  • Fish and Shellfish and a Whole Lot More
    Chefs and home cooks all over America know and at least sometimes pay attention to the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program, an annually updated series of lists, national and regional, for recommendations for sustainable seafood purchases....

  • White Wine From Colorado?
    Had any good West Elks vino lately? West Elks is an AVA (officially designated American Viticultural Area) in Delta County, Colo., high in the Rocky Mountains, about 35 miles southeast of Grand Junction. Vineyards in the region grow at an average altitude...

  • Sandwich of the Week: The Nobu Hotel's Nobu Club
    The elegant new Nobu Hotel, a recent addition to the multi-faceted little 4,000-room Las Vegas caravansery known as Caesar's Palace, is the latest brand extension for Japanese superchef and black-cod-with-miso magnate Nobu Matsuhisa. (The hotel, which...

  • Irish Salmon Farm Controversy Roils the Waters of Galway Bay
      A proposal by the Irish government to establish an 1,127-acre organic salmon farm off Inisheer (Inis Oirr in Irish), a tiny island in Galway Bay on Ireland's western coast, has met furious opposition from environmental activists, fishermen, and...

  • Bistro vs. Brasserie: What's the Difference?
    A bistro is not a brasserie. The terms are sometimes used interchangeably, or imprecisely, in the U.S., but in France, birthplace of both, they almost always retain their original meanings, and understanding the difference might be useful to the hungry...

  • Catalan Spring Onion Feast
    The calçotada is a late winter and early spring ritual in Catalonia, and especially around the town of Valls, about 10 miles north of the old Roman Iberian capital of Tarragona. A calçotada is a feast built around calçots, which in...

  • The World's Best Tangerines?
    I spent my high school years in Ojai, Calif., a town of about 5,000 people nestled in a verdant valley near Santa Barbara, about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The valley was hospitable to what would later be dubbed New Agers — the Indian...

  • 4 New Wines From the Original Rhône Ranger
    In 1954, the producers of Châteauneuf-du-Pape in France's southern Rhône Valley, fiercely protective of the integrity of their vineyards, got a local ordinance passed banning flying saucers from the area. The French term for flying saucer...

  • Wine Merchant to the Stars Calls It Quits — and 'Guess?' Who's Taking Over?
    A few days ago, we named wine merchant Steve Wallace, proprietor of Wally's Wine & Spirits — regularly hailed as the best wine shop in Los Angeles, and undoubtedly one of the best in the country as a whole — as one of our 60 Coolest...

  • The 60 (Plus) Coolest People in Food & Drink
    We write regularly about all the most interesting, accomplished, and innovative figures in food and drink — the most powerful people in food and the best chefs in America and internationally and, heck, even the nation's top event planners. Now,...

  • Gerry Galvin, Pioneer of Modern Irish Cooking, Succumbs at 70
    I met Gerry Galvin on a dark day in Galway in 2005. My colleague the photographer Christopher Hirsheimer and I were producing an all-Irish issue of the magazine I was then editing, Saveur, and more than one of our contacts in Ireland had suggested that we...

  • Traditional Catalan Bread Recognized by the European Commission
    At a banquet for an assortment of international food and wine figures in Madrid a few years back, an esteemed American food writer, looking with justified distaste at the sorry dinner rolls on our table, announced, "There's no good bread in Spain...

  • The Truth About the Mediterranean Diet
      An extensive new study of the effects of a so-called Mediterranean diet on about 7,500 people with a high risk of cardiovascular problems, conducted in Barcelona, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that following the...

  • The Truth About the Margarita
    We serious drinkers hold these truths to be self-evident: A martini is made with gin and (very little) dry vermouth, unless it's a vodka martini. A Manhattan is made with sweet vermouth, bitters, and rye — not bourbon or Canadian whisky. And a...

  • Want to Cook From The Daily Meal? Here's Help
    We're happy to announce the beginnings of an association with Plated.com, a beautifully produced website that basically does your grocery shopping for you, shipping you all the makings of a continuing series of delicious dinners — one-plate...

  • Oscar Wine and Liquor Tie-Ins Win for Imagination
    Sometimes we worry about our friends in the public relations business — or at least we hope that they have access to good orthopedic care, since they sometimes seem to tie themselves in knots or bend over backwards or make one of those very long...

  • Who Has the Most Great Restaurants? France Can't Catch Up
    It isn't the surprise it was supposed to be when the Guide Michelin announced its new restaurant ratings for 2013 (the actual guide goes on sale March 1) this Monday, February 18: Michelin had leaked some of the results to the French magazine and...

  • Is elBulli Really Reopening to Train Actors for a Movie About the Restaurant?
    Last week, it was widely reported (by The Daily Meal, among others) that producer Jeff Kleeman, who has been trying to get a movie about that most famous of avant-garde restaurants, the now-closed elBulli, off the ground since 2011, had found funding for...

  • What Do Chefs Give Up for Lent?
    Deciding to give up something for Lent — the 40-day period between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday, observed by a number of Christian denominations, Catholics most of all — is like making a New Year's resolution: It seems like something...

  • Brooklyn Food Trucks Officially Recognized by the Literary Set
    Back in February of 1925, the cover of the first issue of The New Yorker — which has been America's most consistent and respected publisher of mandarin prose, impenetrable poetry, and arch cartoons , for the past 88 years — featured a top-...

  • Ferran Adrià Lawsuit Dismissed
    Barcelona District Court Number Two has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the sons of Miquel Horta i Almaraz, a onetime investor in the celebrated elBulli restaurant on Spain's Costa Brava, against the restaurant's owners, Ferran Adrià and Juli...

  • Madrid Fusión 2013 Post-Mortem
    Back across the Atlantic in New York, a couple of days after the lights went out on this year's edition of the annual international gastronomic exhibition called Madrid Fusión, I've been taking a look back at the event and comparing it to...

  • Lionfish: It's What's for Dinner
    The menu at Jorge Rausch's popular Criterion restaurant in Bogotá, Colombia, is full of familiar foodstuffs — foie gras, soft-shell crab, tuna tartare, asparagus with sauce hollandaise, wild mushroom risotto, langoustines in various...

  • Russia's Top Chef Comes to Madrid Fusión
    What is contemporary Russian food? In the mind — and on the menu — of Anatoly Komm, it's things like Far East oysters with cucumber and honey, salted salmon with Don River crayfish and celery, borscht with foie gras and pampushki (garlic...

  • Madrid Fusión Day 3: Date-Fed Jamón, Real Innovation From Poland, and Lots of Fish
    On Monday at the 11th annual Madrid Fusión, the big Spanish-and-international gastronomic exhibition, I'd discovered the jamón Ibérico from Arturo Sánchez, in Guijuelo, made from pigs that have had two seasons of feeding on...

  • A New Taste of Spain Comes to New York City
    Dani García has two Michelin stars at his minimalist-style Calima in the Andalusian resort community of Marbella (we also named his more traditional La Moraga, at Spain's Málaga–Costa del Sol Airport, one of our 31 Best Airport...

  • Madrid Fusión Day 2: Brazilian Gastronomy, Mother's Milk, and Lots of Coffee
    The most popular corner of the Madrid Fusión exhibition hall when it opens at 10 a.m. is over to the right of the entrance, where all the coffee stands are concentrated. The always dependable Illy booth is the largest and seems to be the most...

  • Truffles From the Wine Country?
    We're standing in a truffle orchard on a tract of hilly vine-covered property owned by Robert Sinskey Vineyards in the Carneros region, which stretches across parts of southern Napa and Sonoma. Sheep cluster in the shade in one field and around us are...

  • Madrid Fusión Day 1: Great Spanish Chefs, Korean Condiments, and Artisanal Cava
    The theme of this year's edition of Madrid Fusión, the 11th annual incarnation of this culinary extravaganza, which began today, Jan. 21, is "La Creatividad Continua" — The Creativity Continues. This may not have been the...

  • America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food for 2013
    This is our third annual list of America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food. Power is juice — the ability to make things happen. It's authority, strength, muscle. It's what starts trends, pulls strings, rewrites rules, and shifts...

  • Travel Channel Makes a Fool of Itself at Bourdain Show's Expense
    The French drink wine, the Brazilians drink cachaça, and the Irish drink Guinness. Of course they all drink other things as well, but in the case of Ireland, Guinness is — as it has long been — the country's best-selling alcoholic...

  • 4 New Tequilas Are Cause for Celebration
    Does the world need more premium vodkas? Whatever for? Vodka is officially defined by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the U.S. Treasury Department as "any neutral spirits, regardless of production method, which is without distinctive...

  • Top Food and Wine Folks Under 30?
    As a part of their annual "30 Under 30" listings of people to watch in various professions, Forbes has singled out for notice 30 chefs, entrepreneurs, wine folk, activists, and others involved in various capacities with food or drink. (Actually...

  • Lion Meat Is Off the Menu at Several Restaurants
      Looking for a little lion on rye? Some Simba dim sum? A hearty mane course? Sorry, Tarzan, but it's not a jungle out there, or anyway won't be for much longer. Outraged when she discovered that a multicultural fusion restaurant called Taste...

  • A Big New Book Full of Great Recipes and Photographs From Canal House
    OK, OK, so I blurbed this book. So did Mario Batali, Lidia Bastianich, Christopher Kimball, Adam Rapoport, Ed Levine, John Besh, and, er, Jamie Lee Curtis, among many others. And, OK, OK, so Christopher Hirsheimer (that's Ms. Christopher Hirsheimer,...

  • The New York Times Wine Writer Frank Prial Dies at 82
    Frank Prial was the real deal. If the term "wine critic" makes you picture an effete professorial type swirling priceless burgundy in a crystal goblet with an extended pinkie and a supercilious demeanor, well…you’re sure not...

  • 5 Bites of Sydney
    Sydney is one of the great food cities of the Southern Hemisphere, a lively, cosmopolitan place with large populations of Asian and Mediterranean origin, access to great raw materials — abundant, richly flavored fish and shellfish; heritage-breed...

  • 20 Best Restaurants in Germany
    First came The Daily Meal's 101 Best Restaurants in America, then 101 Best Hotel Restaurants Around the World. Now, The Daily Meal has set its sights on Europe. Each week this fall, The Daily Meal will highlight the best restaurants in various regions...

  • 44 Things You Can Do to Help Fight Hunger in America
    It drives us crazy that Americans go hungry. Children, the elderly, whole families facing malnourishment and even starvation are an insult to the values on which our nation was based. We're a wealthy nation, and one that has always prided itself on...

  • Valentino in Santa Monica Celebrates 40 Years with Sicilian Specialties and White Truffles
    When I first met Piero Selvaggio, back in the 1960s, he was a young Sicilian immigrant to Los Angeles, working his way through L.A. City College waiting tables in red-checked-tablecloth Italian joints around town. We lost touch for a while, and the next...

  • The World Food Championships — Chili, Barbecue, Burgers, and More in Las Vegas
    It's like eight TV chef competition shows in one — but it's live and in Las Vegas. That's the first annual World Food Championships, to be held in everybody's favorite sleepy Western village, er, Sin City, from the first through the...

  • Food Festival in Sydney Starring David Chang, Massimo Bottura, Jordi Roca, Jonathan Gold, and More
    Crave Sydney — the Sydney Morning Herald's annual international food festival — lasts for the whole month of October, and spreads throughout the Australian metropolis and into the surrounding suburbs and farmlands of New South Wales. The...

  • Museum "Dinette" Considers Serving Horsemeat
    Animal rights activists and just generally sensitive folk of various stripes are closely watching MoMA PS1, the outpost of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in Long Island City, Queens — and specifically watching its restaurant, M. Wells Dinette...

  • 5 Bites of São Paulo
    The Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo is poised to become one of the world's great restaurant cities. It already boasts the number-four establishment on the San Pellegrino/Restaurant magazine list, the elegant D.O.M., the province of Alex Atala...

  • Sonoma Wine Country Weekend: A Rich Collection of Flavors and Experiences
    The problem with the Taste of Sonoma walk-around wine extravaganza — part of the annual Sonoma Wine Country Weekend, the 20th anniversary observance of which took place from August 31 through September 2 — is like the problem with the...

  • Sandwich of the Week: Porchetta at SD26
    Porchetta is arguably the most seductive of Italian street foods. At neighborhood fairs and marketplaces and sometimes just parked alongside the road in various parts of Italy — and especially around Rome and the surrounding Lazio countryside...

  • Marilyn Hagerty: Does Anybody Get the Joke?
    It's been an exciting month for legendary heartland restaurant critic Marilyn Hagerty: Betty White has been signed to portray the North Dakota culinary commentator in director James Cameron's forthcoming epic Up the Olive Garden! Kate Spade has...

  • Sandwich of the Week: Crescentina with Whipped Lardo at Hostaria il Castelletto in Peschiera Borromeo
    Hosteria il Castelletto is a modest but first-rate restaurant with an artisanal bent and a menu specializing in the cuisine of the Emilian portion of Italy's Emilia-Romagna region, and in particular in the dishes of Modena. What makes it unusual is...

  • Spanish Wines — A Seductive New Crop
    Gerry Dawes is a famous character in the Spanish food and wine scene, both on these shores and in Spain itself. A veteran of the wholesale wine business, he has been traveling around Spain for decades, discovering its best things to eat and drink, and...

  • A Send-Off for Southwestern Florida's Master of Beer and the Buzzard Lope
    If you live in southwestern Florida or have had occasion to visit communities like Fort Myers, Naples, or Marco Island, and if you like to drink and dance, you have very likely been to Stan's. Officially called Stan's Idle Hour Restaurant, the...

  • Macho Cooking From the Past
    Esquire's Eat Like a Man, which was named one of the six best new cookbooks of 2011 by, er, Esquire, purports to be "The only cookbook a man will ever need." Based on the monthly column of the same name and bearing the shared bylines of...

  • Italian Cooking Teacher and Author Anna Teresa Callen is Gone
    Unlike her approximate contemporary Marcella Hazan, Anna Teresa Callen never achieved mythic status in her role as a teacher of Italian cooking and author of a number of evocative and highly usable books on her country's cuisine. Though she appeared...

  • Jon Hamm vs. Kevin Bacon: Celebrity Trayf-Off
    Now that Jon Hamm has hung up his Mad Men fedora for the season, we're probably going to have to content ourselves with his voiceovers for Mercedes-Benz and maybe an occasional film role (what was Don Draper doing chasing Boston bank robbers in The...

  • Adrià and Acurio Premiere a Movie They Hope Will Change the World
    Catalan chef Ferran Adrià, the man behind elBulli, and Peruvian chef–restaurateur Gastón Acurio introduced filmmaker Jesús María Santos's 70-minute documentary Perú Sabe — the title means both "Peru...

  • Sandwich of the Week: Hot Lobster Roll at Abbott's in Noank, Connecticut
    Nobody agrees about lobster rolls. Should the lobster meat be bound with mayonnaise? If mayo is involved, should the bun be buttered? Toasted? Do you mix celery or dill or chives or anything else into the lobster? What about seasonings (salt, sure, but...

  • Great American Cheddar
    Cabot Creamery is a dairy cooperative started by local farmers in northeastern Vermont in 1919, and now owned by the Agri-Mark Cooperative, a large milk processor and packager in New York and New England. Vermont has long been known for making some of...

  • Beer That Isn't Beer
    Root beer, a familiar but increasingly neglected soft drink, can trace its history back to the Colonial era, when roots and herbs and barks of various kinds were boiled in water as a way of making that water safe to drink. The resulting brews were...

  • S'Mores Season Is Here
    S'mores are the all-American summertime dessert. (Rumor has it that in Arizona, saying that you don't like s'mores is cause for immediate deportation.) Simple sandwiches of milk chocolate and fire-blackened marshmallow between a couple of...

  • Booze on Sunday in Connecticut!
    Buy wine, beer, or spirits at a retail store on Sunday? Sure, why not? Because, if you were a resident of the state of Connecticut, until this Sunday, May 20, 2012, such a purchase would have been impossible. All over the country, so-called "blue...

  • Smart Food: A Diet for Food and Wine Lovers
    Peter Kaminsky is an unlikely candidate for the role of healthy-eating guru. A longtime fixture on the New York culinary scene, he has co-authored books with such celebrated chefs as Daniel Boulud, Michel Richard, Gray Kunz, and the great Argentinean...

  • New Chocolate in Town
    There's no shortage of chocolatiers and chocolate shops in New York City, but Maria Busato and Alvaro Insausti have launched a business, dubbed Tu Chocolate, that bills itself as Manhattan's first Venezuelan example of the genre. That's...

  • Baseball's Biggest Brand-Name Snack
    There is one well-known sweet snack food whose name is indelibly associated with the great game of baseball, though almost everybody gets that name slightly wrong. Both the baseball association and the error are due to a line in the 1908-vintage pop song...

  • Liederkranz: Our Own Stinky Cheese
    Its name is German and its pungent aroma might be called downright alien, but Liederkranz is a real American cheese. The story of its creation begins with a German immigrant cheese factory owner named Adolphe Tode, who ran the Monroe Cheese Co. in Monroe...

  • What's on John Travolta's Menu?
    If you're like us, news that John Travolta is the subject of lawsuits just filed by two masseurs accusing him of sexual assault (his lawyer dismisses the allegations as "absurd and ridiculous") leaves you yawning and reaching for another...

  • The Four Seasons Restaurant Is Just Plain Folks
    Young, hip Manhattan wouldn't be caught dead at the Four Seasons, the landmark Phillip Johnson-designed, 1959-vintage restaurant in the Seagram Building on 52nd Street, just off Park Avenue. Not with its $25 appetizers and $75 steaks, its un-cutting-...

  • Shailene Woodley Forages, Drinks Special Milk
    Actress Shailene Woodley (The Descendants, The Secret Life of the American Teenager) is the cover subject of the June issue of ASOS, the online/offline British fashion magazine/catalogue. The 20-year-old thespian appears wearing a denim shirt, crochet...

  • Blue Point Oysters — The Real Thing
    April 30 each year is always kind of a sad occasion for me, because that's the last day of the year that I eat oysters, until September rolls around. Yes, I'm a slave to that old "only in months with an 'r'" routine. Now, I know...

  • Ferran Adrià: 'elBulli Isn't Closed'
    Ferran Adrià opens the door to the Taller, his famous culinary "workshop" on the Carrer de la Portaferrissa, off the Ramblas in Barcelona. He looks trim and a little tired. There's no one else in the place, but every wall and every...

  • Salmon From Alaska's Copper River — The Best
    Though some examples of farmed salmon are better than others, in general it doesn't compare very well to its wild-caught cousin at all. Because the farmed variety is pretty much ubiquitous today — it outnumbers wild salmon in the marketplace by...

  • Asparagus: Bigger Is Better
    In case you haven't noticed, we're in full-scale asparagus season, and spears of all sizes, green and white and occasionally purple, are in markets everywhere. Asparagus, a flowering perennial native to parts of Europe, North Africa, and...

  • Sandwich of the Week: Amato's Original Real Italian
    Amato's "Real Italian" looks like the results of a produce truck and a deli counter crashing into an overgrown lobster-roll bun. In fact, it's a combination of cooked ham and traditional, no-apologies American cheese, enhanced with big...

  • Eating in the Capital of the Olympics
    The 2012 Olympic Games begin in London on July 27. But unless you planned way ahead or have some mighty good connections, you're probably not going. If you want to get a little taste of the Olympics, though, and eat some good food while you're at...

  • Eating in the Capital of the Olympics
    The 2012 Olympic Games begin in London on July 27. Unless you planned way ahead, though, or have some mighty good connections, you're probably not going. If you want to get a little taste of the Olympics, though, and eat some good food while you...

  • I Demand the Right to Pack Chianti in My Carry-On
    We all want to be safe when we fly, of course, and I don't think anybody objects these days to metal detectors (as much as we may rue the necessity for them) or prohibitions against carrying deadly weapons onboard. But many of the procedures we are...

  • 25 Iconic Food-Borne Illnesses from Around the World
    Why stay home this summer and get boring old salmonella poisoning? Discover a new universe of Vibrio vulnificus, Coxiella burnetii, Yersinia pestis, and more. "Look," says Ima Germe, founder and CEO of Dugway, Utah-based Typhoid Mary Tours,...

  • Pete Wells Out At NYT; Marilyn Hagerty In
    Grand Forks, N.D. restaurant reviewing sensation Marilyn Hagerty has been hired to replace recently appointed New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells. "We have the greatest respect for Pete," said Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger...

  • New Romney Shocker: 'I Like Chittlins and Menudo'
    In his latest bid to prove that he's just plain folks, the embattled Republican presidential candidate has reached out to more minority palates with his avowed affection for hog intestines and stewed tripe. "Romney's people parlayed his...

  • Starbucks Phases Out Coffee
    "The big money in this game," says chain CEO Howard Schultz, "is in soy milk and pumpkin flavoring. Oh, and CDs by all those women who used to play at Lilith Fair. It's far too much trouble to source and ship and roast coffee, and all...

  • Bradley Cooper Wants to Come to Your Party
    The so-called "sexiest man alive" and star of hit movies like The Hangover, Wedding Crashers, and Wet Hot American Summer, Cooper insists that he's just an ordinary everyday nerd looking for a pleasant soirée where plain-looking women...

  • Whole Foods to Sell Live Animals for Slaughter
    Reaffirming the popular high-quality supermarket chain's commitment to traceability, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey explains, "If you slit the damn lambie-pie's throat yourself, you know exactly where the chops come from. We'll even give you...

  • The 60 (Plus) Coolest People in Food & Drink for 2012
    We've written about the most powerful people in food and regularly cover the most interesting, accomplished, and innovative figures in the whole big world of food and drink. As spring approaches and the weather warms, though, we thought it might be...

  • Sandwich of the Week: Carne Asada Gordita at La Superior in Durham, N.C.
    One of the best places to eat Mexican food in America today is North Carolina, and especially the city of Durham. The first big wave of immigration from Mexico and Central America came to the region in the early 1980s, in response to a shortage of local...

  • Morgan Freeman Closes His Mississippi Restaurant
    Clarksdale, Miss., can lay a pretty fair claim to being the capital city of the blues — Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Son House, and Ike Turner, among many other musical luminaries, lived here at one time or another; Bessie Smith died here; and...

  • Our Favorite Ethnic (Food) Joke
    An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, an American, an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Slovakian, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a Nigerian, a New Zealander, a Spaniard, a...

  • A Legendary Los Angeles Bar and Restaurant Remembered
    Forty years ago today, on Feb. 9, 1970, a burly actor named Jock Livingston (below right) and his artist wife, Micaela, opened an extraordinary, eccentric, and eventually rather legendary restaurant called Ports, across the street from Goldwyn Studios on...

  • Madrid Fusión 2012: Day Three
    The Daily Meal's editorial director, Colman Andrews has been reporting live from Madrid Fusión this week. Click here for coverage of days one and two.  Why do people come to Madrid Fusión, the annual three-day gastronomic fair...

  • Madrid Fusión 2012: Day Two
    Just for a minute, sitting in the auditorium at Madrid Fusión Wednesday, watching Nathan Myhrvold (above) captivating the audience, it occurred to me to wonder if maybe he, and not René Redzepi or some other accomplished chef, were the real...

  • Avant-Garde Cooking at Madrid Fusión 2012
    The most notable chef at this year's edition, the 10th annual, of Madrid Fusión — the big international gastronomic "summit" held every January in the Spanish capital — is notable for his absence: Ferran Adrià. The...

  • America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food for 2012
    Last January we published our first annual list of America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food (2011). It's that time again. Many of last year's names appear on this year's roster, but there are some new names, too, which of course...

  • The First Great California Wine Writer
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  • The Real Dead Celebrities Cookbook
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  • What to Know When Cooking Pasta
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  • RIP Joe Gracey, Texas Music Legend and Passionate Cook and Eater
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  • Campiello's Wood-Roasted Turkey Sandwich
    Talk about opposites: The friendly, well-run Italian-ish restaurant called Campiello has two locations — one in the bustling city of Eden Prairie, Minn., just outside Minneapolis, where the average winter temperature is around 15 degrees Fahrenheit...

  • RIP Joe Gracey, Texas Music Legend and Passionate Cook and Eater
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  • 6 Things You Didn't Know About Godfather's Pizza
    Throughout our history, we've elected (or rejected) presidential candidates who had previous jobs that were — let's be honest here — basically pretty boring. General. Governor. Congressman. Lawyer. Peanut farmer. Vice president (...

  • The Unexpected, Very Good Wines of Switzerland
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  • An Irish Food Festival in Kilkenny
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  • 44 Things You Can Do to Fight Hunger in America
    It is a shame and a scandal that there are hungry people in America — undernourished children, families on the brink of starvation, elderly citizens who never get a decent meal. We style ourselves as the world's greatest country, and we're...

  • Sandwich of the Week: Reblochon and Jambon Cru at La Fermette in Annecy
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  • Turn-of-the-Century Recipes From a Restaurant Legend
    George Rector was one of the most famous American restaurateurs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a third-generation host whose Rector's, on Broadway in Manhattan, welcomed all the celebrities of the era and apparently fed them very well. (...

  • Appreciating Joe Baum
    One of the New York area restaurants of bygone days that I most wish I'd been able to visit wasn't even in New York: It was The Newarker, across the Hudson River in New Jersey, at what was then called simply Newark Airport. In the early 1950s,...

  • The Haunted McDonald's and the Legendary Restaurateur
    One of the most famous haunted structures in New York State — and certainly the only one associated with both a 19th- and early 20th-century restaurant dynasty and an international modern-day fast-food chain — is Frontier House in Lewiston, a...

  • Smoked Salmon From a Magical Corner of Ireland
    The best smoked salmon in the world, at least in this smoked-salmon lover's opinion, comes from Ireland, and the wares of one of that country's top artisanal salmon smokers, Birgitta Hedin-Curtin of Burren Smokehouse in County Clare, are now...

  • Little-Known but Important (and Excellent) Barcelona Chef Calls It Quits
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  • Venice as the Tourists Never See It
    Picture Venice at twilight on an autumn evening: The Rialto is thick with backpack-wearing, camera-wielding tourists wearing cargo shorts or sweat suits; the Piazza San Marco is a sea of pigeons, interrupted here and there by ranks of caffè tables...

  • Heston Blumenthal Looks Back
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  • Why Chez Panisse Matters
    It probably isn't fair to say that without Chez Panisse there would today be no "locavores," no farm-to-table eating, no identification of farms and other sources on menus, no obsession with the local, the seasonal, and the organic in our...

  • Feasts Mark the 40th Anniversary of Chez Panisse
    When Chez Panisse — arguably America's single most influential restaurant — turned 30, in 2001, more than 600 guests showed for a seven-hour afternoon-into-evening fête centered around a rustic-style feast at long communal tables on...

  • Where to Find the Best Paella in Spain
    It is very likely that you've never had paella — at least not paella in the sense that the good people of the southeastern Spanish seaside capital of Valencia (pictured below) and the surrounding countryside, who invented it in the first place,...

  • El Bulli Reopens? A False Alarm
    As anyone who cares about such things has heard, "the world's greatest restaurant", Ferran Adrià's impossible-to-get-into El Bulli in Cala Montjoi, on Spain's Costa Brava, closed for good on July 30th, with plans to reopen in...

  • Ferran Adrià Says Goodbye: The Last Day of El Bulli
    July 30, 2011. It was a warm, humid morning at Cala Montjoi. There was a scent of pine and seawater in the air, but the sun wasn't having much success in its attempts to nudge aside the clouds. This was the last day that El Bulli — the...

  • Top Cities for America's 7 Favorite Foods
    "What is American food? Hot dogs and hamburgers?" Yankee food-lovers traveling abroad used to (and probably sometimes still do) get stuff like that all the time from cuisine-snobbish Europeans and Asians. At least some of us would stand up for...

  • Best Cities for America's 7 Favorite Foods
      "What is American food? Hot dogs and hamburgers?" Yankee food-lovers traveling abroad used to (and probably sometimes still do) get stuff like that all the time from cuisine-snobbish Europeans and Asians. At least some of us would stand...

  • Goodbye to the Extraordinary George Lang
    “Dear Colman,” read the fax I got from George Lang one morning almost 20 years ago in my office in Santa Monica, after I'd had to revise my itinerary for a planned trip to Europe. “1. I did change my schedule to be able to meet you...

  • Goodbye to an LA Restaurant Business Legend
    Once about every three or four weeks for the past 15 or 20 years, I'd pick up the phone and hear an unmistakable voice, somehow raspy but luminous at the same time, saying "Colman, it's Joan. Just checking in." That was Joan Luther (...

  • 150 Best Bars in America
    Bars are wonderful institutions, part watering hole, part social hub, part cultural phenomenon — places where people go when they want to be out in a crowd or else to be alone; where they can (depending on the bar) laugh, talk, dance, sing, sulk,...

  • Star Chefs Hit Music City
    Robert Del Grande of Houston's RDG and Bar Annie brought his guitar to Nashville. Norman Van Aken of Norman's in Orlando brought his knife case and his harmonica case. The two were among five James Beard Award-winning chefs — the others...

  • 50 Years of Contemporary Catalan Cuisine
    When I got to the Hotel Empordà in Figueres, 20 miles or so south of the French border in Catalan Spain, late in the afternoon last Monday, I found a veritable culinary constellation sipping white wine and gin-and-tonics in the lounge: Ferran Adri...

  • Catalonia Without Michelin Stars
    If I were a slavish devotee of the Spanish edition of the Guide Michelin — which I'm not, thank goodness — I would have missed what were quite possibly the three best meals I've had, in Spain or anywhere else, in the past month. One...

  • 50 Years of Contemporary Catalan Cuisine
      When I got to the Hotel Empordà in Figueres, 20 miles or so south of the French border in Catalan Spain, late in the afternoon last Monday, I found a veritable culinary constellation sipping white wine and gin-and-tonics in the lounge:...

  • Star Chefs Hit Music City
      Robert Del Grande of Houston's RDG and Bar Annie brought his guitar to Nashville. Norman Van Aken of Norman's in Orlando brought his knife case and his harmonica case. The two were among five James Beard Award-winning chefs — the...

  • Sandwich of the Week: Fried Green Tomato Sandwich at Merchants
    The menu at Merchants, a lively two-part restaurant — a cool contemporary dining room upstairs, a casual place at street level — on an intensely touristy stretch of Broadway in Nashville, Tenn., says "Est. 1892." That's...

  • 4 Restaurants Where You'll Never, Ever, Get a Table
    Restaurants used to be places where people went to relax, be comfortable, get waited on, places where part of the appeal was that they got to choose from a whole menu full of dishes — with sauce on the side if you wanted it that way. (The very word...

  • America's Most Successful Chefs
    How much money do chefs make? According to Nation's Restaurant News, the leading U.S. food-service trade magazine, the average annual salary for an executive chef at a stand-alone restaurant in 2010 was $71,063. All together, now: Do you think that...

  • 35 Tequila Songs
    There's something about tequila. As you may have noticed. Probably the following morning. Tequila isn't, ipso facto, any stronger than any other class of hooch. It contains no mystery ingredients with suspect powers (like the wormwood in absinthe...

  • An Exclusive Look at Jamie Oliver's Amazing New Line of School Snacks
    Socially conscious, formerly naked British superchef and TV personality Jamie Oliver hasn't had much luck convincing American school systems to revise their lunch menus, substituting good, fresh food for the usual school-cafeteria slop. But he did...

  • Sandwich of the Week: Pa amb Tomàquet amb Anxoves
    Of the ten bars and food kiosks scattered around the Boqueria market on the Ramblas in Barcelona, none is more celebrated than Bar Pinotxo. A, lively breakfast-and-lunch counter just inside the main market entrance, presided over by Juanito Bayen, an...

  • The 50 Best Restaurants in the World — Really?
    The fifth-best restaurant in the world? Spoon des Îles in Mauritius. Number eight? 1884 in Mendoza, Argentina. Some others in the top 50? Tangerine in Philadelphia (#12), Vong in New York City (#15), The Lone Star in Barbados (#25), Blue Lagoon in...

  • The Food World's Secret Vices
    Ferran Adrià secretly enjoys an occasional Bollycao, a chocolate-filled Spanish cousin of the Twinkie. Julia Child once admitted that she sometimes ate hot dogs for breakfast, and considered Burger King French fries to be "very good."...

  • Gwyneth Makes Pappardelle for Jay-Z and Mario-B
    Novice cookbook writer Gwyneth Paltrow threw quite a bash in New York City on Monday night to promote her debut recipe collection, My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness (Grand Central Publishing). The...

  • Art and Food in Barcelona
    Noon in Barcelona: A line of people — mostly tourists and students, judging from all those fanny packs and backpacks — snakes back from a side door, around the Carrer de Provença onto the Passeig de Gràcia, waiting to take a...

  • Sandwich of the Week: La Más Cabrona Cemita
    In most of Mexico, sandwiches are called tortas (literally "cakes"). They're made with crusty rolls with soft interiors, round or torpedo-shaped, and usually involve meat or poultry — anything from carne asada to chorizo to sliced...

  • Dining in the Heart of Mexico
    There are scores of restaurants in the pretty colonial town of San Miguel de Allende in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Thus far, Hooters and The Hard Rock have not reared their cabezas, and there isn't a Subway or a McDonald's in sight, but...

  • The 50 Most Important Inventions (and Discoveries) in Food and Drink
    "I simply couldn't cook without my…" Cast-iron frying pan? Ginsu knives? Immersion blender? Mickey Mouse Waffle Maker? Everybody who prepares food at home (or professionally, for that matter) has an implement or appliance or five or...

  • Great Dublin Dining
    Let’s face it: When food-loving travelers talk about great European food cities, they’re likely to get to Hamburg, or maybe Vilnius, before Dublin comes up. What is Irish food, anyway? Smoked salmon, soda bread, corned beef and cabbage,...

  • 101 Best Restaurants in America for 2011
    “Best restaurant” lists are tricky. How can any sensible eater compare an iconic pizza parlor or the joint that serves that simply transcendent cheeseburger with the lapidary perfection of a French Laundry or the genre-bending inventiveness of...

  • Death of a Great Catalan Chef
    I first ate at El Racó de Can Fabes, in the nondescript town of Sant Celoni, about 30 miles northeast of Barcelona, in 1990. The place looked like a rustic inn of the kind you find all over Italy, France, and Spain — the kind of restaurant...

  • Report from Madrid Fusión
    The event: The ninth annual Madrid Fusión — a "Cumbre Internacional de Gastronomía," or International Summit of Gastronomy, held every January in the Spanish capital. The cast: Many of the most famous names in contemporary Spanish cuisine...

  • Sandwich of the Week: Olive-Oil Roll with Cured Iberian Pork Shoulder at Mas Gourmets, Mercado San Miguel, Madrid
    The most common term for a sandwich in Spanish is bocadillo, literally "little mouthful" — though there are numerous other terms used (including, well, sandwich), some of them regional, and though not all bocadillos are by any means...

  • Adrià Reveals More About the New El Bulli
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  • Readers' Choice: More Nominees for America's Most Powerful People in Food
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  • Sandwich of the Week: Escoveitched Snapper Sandwich at Round Hill, Jamaica
    Everybody knows jerk, the now internationally popular Jamaican genre of chicken, pork, and other meats coated in a spicy dry rub based on Scotch bonnet chiles and allspice, then grilled (at least originally) on hardwood fires in oil drums adapted for the...

  • America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food for 2011
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  • Producer Profile: Scaggs Vineyard
    One night a few weeks back I heard Boz Scaggs performing at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. The night after that, I drank 2008 Scaggs Vineyard Mt. Veeder Montage at my dining room table in Connecticut. Neither Scaggs nor his wine was what you'd call...

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  • Deep-Fried Turkey? Yes!
    I like most anything deep-fried. Well, maybe not Mars Bars (the deep-fried Mars Bar being a late 20th-century Scottish contribution to international gastronomy), but most anything else. I even deep-fry steak sometimes. But when my wife, in my absence,...

  • San Sebastian Gastronomika 2010
    The 2010 edition of Gastronomika, the big Spanish food and wine conference and fair held annually in San Sebastian — the handsome, mid-sized city on the Basque coast often called the food capital of Spain — kicked off Sunday night, Nov. 21,...

  • Sandwich of the Week: Beach Street Sandwiches' Smoked Ham and Cheese
    A ham and cheese sandwich? Oh, yum. Flaccid pale pink mystery meat and plastic Swiss on soggy bread slathered with cheap mustard. Be still, my palate. But then, on the other hand, there's the "smoked ham and cheese" sold out of Beach Street...

  • 9 Great Thai Restaurants in Los Angeles
    With its opening in New York, there has been a lot of talk lately about Lotus of Siam. My esteemed colleague, Dana Cowin dubbed it "the best Thai restaurant in the country," when she spoke to The Daily Meal recently. Her celebration of Los...

  • New York and London with Ferran Adrià
    When my biography of the Ferran Adrià, the celebrated—legendary is probably not too strong a word—chef-proprietor of El Bulli in northeastern Spain, was published this fall in New York (by Gotham Books) and London (by Phaidon), Adrià himself...

  • Grouse: Wild Game the British Way
    To grouse, meaning to complain, is 19th-century British army slang, probably derived by some circuitous route from the Greek word gruzein, to grumble. A grouse, meaning a wild, jaunty-looking, and unfortunately (for it) delicious game bird, has no...

  • Taste-Off: Pumpkin vs. Pumpkin
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  • The Daily Meal Is Served
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  • Nouvelle Cuisine: The Next Big Thing?
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