I have not been here a week yet and my heart is already replenished and my eyes filled with beautiful memories. I keep catching myself throughout the day thinking “I can’t believe I am here”. It’s good to go home and see all my cousins for a joyous occasion for once. I’ve been enjoying my mom’s wonderful cooking, let my nose take me to the cheese box and renewed my love affair with the most fragrant cantaloupes, Saturn peaches,... 

A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about Nomacorc, a producer of synthetic corks. The story ran a graphic depicting market share by closure type, with data from Nomacorc. Corks were listed at 69%, plastic corks at 20%, and screw caps at 11%. That struck me as not at all my experience: I would have guesstimated that screw caps outnumbered…  Read More →

We don’t yet know how bad the damage will be along the Gulf coast from the oil spill, but things are looking grim. It could be devastating. If so, what’s at risk? A huge proportion of the American seafood industry, for one thing. In his rundown of the Gulf’s place in the seafood economy , Grist’s Tom Philpott calls it “a kind of natural engine for the production of wild, highly…  Read More →

The perception that boxed wine is poor quality might be changing.  Read More →