Wine Icon Turns 100, Family Celebrates with Ice Cream Who doesn’t like wine — and ice cream — on their birthday? In honor of what would have been Robert Mondavi’s 100th birthday, make this lemon verbena ice cream, complete with a wine pairing, from the Robert Mondavi Winery.
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7 Wines From Celebrity Chefs Sure, celebrity chefs can put their stamp on just about any product these days — look at Michael Symon shilling for Lay’s or Lorena Garcia working for Taco Bell — but should the fine art of winemaking be off limits?
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Texas Tipples: The Hottest 6 Drinks From the Lone Star State The SXSW festival is almost all grown up, celebrating 20 years of music, art, and tech innovations this week in the funkiest town in Texas. So with all eyes on Austin from March 8 to 17, we wondered what tipples they’re drinking deep in the heart of...
The Mardi Gras Survival Guide Misconceptions about Mardi Gras in New Orleans abound: All the action’s on one day! (Actually, floats have been rolling since the end of January.) Everyone’s half-naked! (Nope, it’s usually just the tourists in the French Quarter who...
Super Bowl Survival Guide: New Orleans The most anticipated night in football is nearly upon us, and an estimated 100,000 to 125,000 visitors will descend upon the Crescent City in time for Super Bowl XLVII. This year marks the 10th time New Orleans has played host to the big game, but 2013...
Where to Watch the Super Bowl in New Orleans Don’t have a ticket to watch the Super Bowl inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans? With seats nearly impossible to get — and those that are available upward of $2,000 — it’s no surprise the Crescent City’s bars...
How to Tailgate — New Orleans Style In 1996, Joe Cahn sold the New Orleans School of Cooking, bought a motor home, and hit the road to explore more than 500 tailgating parties across the United States.
Learn how to tailgate New Orleans style with these great tips!
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Top 5 Most Bizarre Places to Find Booze Sure, you hit your neighborhood bar for a cocktail or a nearby wine shop to purchase some vino — but who knew you could fill up your gas tank and a growler of craft beer at the same time in South Carolina, score an alcoholic beverage at a hair salon...
Cherry Bomb: The Newest Cherry Spirits and Cocktails Sure, sugary, flavored vodkas have been all the rage in spirits this year — consider the toothache-promoting, shame-inducing best-sellers like cotton candy and whipped cream — but liquor producers across the spirits spectrum seem to be turning...
9 Restaurants Where It's Expensive to BYOB So you want to dine out — and bring your own bottle of wine. Sounds simple enough, right?
Yet, in order to BYOB at some of the best restaurants in the country, and particularly in cities like New York, you had better be prepared to tack on a...
9 Unique Spiced Cocktails [slideshow:42619]
It seems man has always gone wild for spicy stuff: The ancient Egyptians used spices as early as 3000 B.C. for embalming, the Romans were ransomed by the Visigoths in the fifth century for peppercorns, and spices incited a war between...
World's 10 Weirdest Spirits Has the spirits scene spiraled out of control? With modern mixologists slinging everything-but-the-kitchen-sink cocktails at top bars in the U.S., the hunt for the next hot trend in liquor has created some—well—frankly bizarre booze of late....
World's 10 Weirdest Spirits Has the spirits scene spiraled out of control? With modern mixologists slinging everything-but-the-kitchen-sink cocktails at top bars in the U.S., the hunt for the next hot trend in liquor has created some—well—frankly bizarre booze of late....
World's 10 Weirdest Spirits An alcoholic yogurt liqueur, a bitter apéritif made from artichokes... how about a concoction featuring wood chips steeped in liquor that is touted as "Dominican Viagra"? It would be difficult to hear about such spirits and not wonder...