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Food / Drink: What to Watch For In 2006

A TASTE OF BLUE HEAVEN With their striking blue feet and mildly gamy taste, French Bresse chickens have inspired passion among connoisseurs since gastronome...

Food: Grape Expectations

For wine connoisseurs, the phrase homemade wine conjures up images of the dense, sweet plonk made in some grandfather's basement. Like bathtub gin, amateur vino...

Food: Daisy Cooks

In her PBS cooking show, celebrity chef and caterer Daisy Martinez has a charming, enthusiastic way of sharing not only her culinary skills but also her Puerto...

Food: Sauteing With The Stars

Ever wish you could meet and eat with your favorite celebrity chef? Now you can choose from a growing number of gastronomic getaways designed to let ordinary...

Food: Happy Farm

Concerned about treatment of farm animals? Then look for the new "certified humane" label on menus and in supermarkets. The label promises that the animals ate...

Food: Fast Food Speeds up the Pace

Four-year-old Kevin White of Richmond, Calif., is enjoying that all-American event, a birthday party at McDonald's. Wearing a Ronald McDonald birthday hat and...

Food Chain

Having a summer heat wave? Build a fire. But there's more to a successful BBQ than starting an inferno—it is about eating, after all. An entire world of...

Faster Food

Order at a drive-through, and there's a chance--a small but growing chance--that the voice coming back through the speaker is miles, or even states, away. Fast...

Food: Taking Mache Mainstream

THE GREENS KEEPER There was a time in the U.S. when salad meant a wedge of iceberg lettuce. But in the late 1980s, as European salad mixes like mesclun were...

Biz Briefs: Food: Can Granola Grow Up?

Few people appreciate the promise and the peril of the fast-growing natural-foods business as well as Irwin Simon, the energetic founder and CEO of the Hain...

Food You'll Want to Inhale

Aroma is the central ingredient at Frisson, San Francisco's newest culinary hot spot, where both dishes and drinks are infused with fragrance. Chef Daniel...

Fashion Food

Wannabe hostesses, take note: caterer to the rich and famous Serena Bass is publishing her first book, Serena, Food & Stories: Feeding Friends Every Hour of the...

Food for the Brain

Fans of Indian cuisine know a spicy curry can go straight to the head—and now medical science backs them up. A recent study by researchers at the University of...

Food Fashions

Talk about life imitating art. A new chain of American cafés—modeled on the kitchen in the U.S. sitcom Seinfeld—just sells cereal. Cereality cafés have cabinets...

Best Street Food

Imagine a free-ranging buffet, several hundred square kilometers in area, through which to graze at will. This limitless cornucopia brings together some of the...

BRIEFING: Fast Food Goes Organic

Like any number of vacationing parents, Gary Hirshberg was dismayed to find nothing but fast food as he drove up the Northern California coast with his wife and...

Seoul Food

Running around Seoul and looking for food to go? Then you're spoiled for choice. Street vendors in the South Korean capital tempt passersby with a tasty,...

Food: Healthy Junk Food

It's the universal dream to indulge in chips, crisps and cheesy curls of junk food yet somehow stay as trim and healthy as one would on a diet of veggies. But...