It's hard to beat champagne but makers of top-shelf Italian bubbly franciacorta aim to establish their product as an alternative, using a blend of high quality and shrewd marketing.
American writer Debbie Macomber is a best-selling author of romance and other women's fiction but now she is serving up a new genre to satisfy her readers -- cookery.
Frank Bruni's life-long struggle with food is common story for millions of Americans, but his tale of conquering his eating problem and becoming a top U.S. restaurant critic is not.
Lovers of Chinese tea are flocking to Guizhou province, a place whose tea history dates back 2,000 years.
Tourists flock here for the postage stamps rather than the local reds and its only winery needs a makeover, but the tiny republic of San Marino is boldly pushing ahead to make a name for its wines.
Dr. Sally Gras will head to Europe next year to study the texture of cheese to help manufacturers in Australia, one of the world's biggest exporter of dairy products.
One of my favorite new books is Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future by David Wolfe.
One of my favorite summer dinners is a big salad with fresh salmon on top.
Scotland is known around the world for bagpipes, Scotch whisky, haggis and tartan kilts. But now it is trying to protect a less obviously Scottish treasure: chicken tikka masala.
Last weekend I completed my training at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in NYC. I’m now a certified holistic health counselor. Yay!
A German health organization has issued a brochure with new conclusions about the effects of coffee on human health, saying that it is good for the brain and the liver.
Sterilized flavored milk drinks have fewer vitamins than similar drinks made from pasteurized or ultra-high temperature milk, notes Germany's Saxony Consumer Advice Center.