PAIRING: Pizza & Rhone Wine

Red Rhone wines are great with pizza. Photo by Kelly Cline | IST. We typically enjoy a beer with pizza. But we recently attended a “pizza challenge” that pitted top Manhattan pizza makers against those from Brooklyn. First, our top pick pizzas (use these ingredients at home): Kudos to Chef Mathieu Palombino from Motorino Pizzeria…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Coffee & Red Wine Stain Removal

There’ll be no more ruined clothes and linens with these products. Photo by Igor Dutina | IST. Many of us regularly enjoy red wine and coffee. Some of us spill them more frequently than others. At the end of a dinner party, our tablecloth and napkins generally have multiple stains of coffee and red wine.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Pour Champagne

The wrong way to pour Champagne or sparkling wine (photo by Diana Myrndorff | SXC).   There’s science in everything, including pouring a glass of Champagne. According to a new study published in The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Champagne is a drink best poured tilted—the opposite of how most people pour it, straight…
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NEWS: Americans Are Drinking [A Bit] More

Love of beer has caused the drinking rate to edge up slightly. Photo by Odelia | CSP. The annual Gallup poll of American drinking habits, conducted last month, reveals that drinking rates have edged up slightly to a 25-year high. Beer is the beverage of choice among the largest group of drinkers, followed by wine…
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NEWS: Locapour Joins Locavore

You may be a locavore, but are you a locapour? When in Texas, drink Texas wine (photo © Texas Department Of Agriculture).   According to the Washington Post, the “drink local” movement is on its way to joining the locavore “eat local foods” movement. Californians have it easy with many thousands of local wines, that…
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