Before digging into informal meals, young Chilean hosts may say, “Atacamos.” The term literally means, “Let’s attack.” In the South American country, as in many others, food and wine are enthusiastically embraced. But for many Chileans, the...
Women are still a long way from reaching parity with men in the executive suites and board rooms of foodservice companies, but the path to the corner office has fewer roadblocks now that it has become easier to find mentors who can help them get...
Move over, chocolate and vanilla. If Vic Cherikoff is right, wattleseed will soon rank as a similarly important “world flavor.” Cherikoff, cookbook author, chef and co-host of the Australian television show “Dining Down Under,” is widely credited...
Abottle of red, a bottle of white. It all depends upon your appetite.”Those are some of the lyrics to Billy Joel’s song, “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant,” but they also represent today’s state of mind when it comes to dining out in the wine and...
An exploration of the cuisine in some dynamic wine and sake areas shows how small the world has become. New York’s Finger Lakes, Niigata prefecture in Japan, the state of South Australia and the diverse wine regions of central Chile produce...
Amountain chain runs down the middle of the main island of Honshu, Japan. Take a train in late winter from the green Southeast, where Tokyo is, to the Northwest, and you emerge from a tunnel under the mountains into a snow-covered land that you...