PepsiCo reported a big jump in quarterly profit on Thursday, despite signs that customers are buying fewer cans of soda and bags of chips as the company continues to raise prices aggressively. Pepsi, which makes Gatorade, Lay’s and Quaker Oats, also raised its forecast for earnings in the rest of the year, pushing its stock…
When Jon Bonné set out in 2014 to write a book on the contemporary wine culture of France, he didn’t grasp the vast nature of the changes that had transformed the country over the last 20 years, or what those changes meant for the rest of the wine-producing world. What he learned surprised him, and…
Well into July, more and more of my meals look like this: A smattering of crackers, a small dish of edamame, maybe a mound of hummus alongside spears of Persian cucumbers, a handful of popcorn, a piece of cheese, a few blackberries. If there are any rules for my snackish dinners, it’s that they’re assembled,…
Every month, Jimmy Ly usually orders nearly 150 bottles of sriracha from Huy Fong Foods for one of his Vietnamese restaurants in New York City. The sauce opens the richness of a pho broth or adds a blast of heat to a banh xeo, a Vietnamese crepe. “It’s not too spicy; it’s not too light,”…
It survived San Francisco’s devastating 1906 earthquake, Prohibition and both world wars. But recent economic pressures proved too much for the company said to be the oldest craft brewer in the country: After 127 years, Anchor Brewing Company is shutting down. In a statement released Wednesday, the company, founded in 1896, said that the impacts…
For Sheldrake, and many fungi enthusiasts, partnering with these organisms offers a real way to reduce our impact on the Earth. “They form an important part of a climate crisis solution,” he says. As fast-growing and relatively low-maintenance crops — many can be grown indoors, with little space, water or labor — fungi present an…
Pasta isn’t always thought of as an expensive meal, but when you add a lot of ingredients or a handful of more opulent ones, its price per serving can climb. But these smart pastas rely on only a few powerful ingredients — many of which you probably already have on hand — to keep flavors…
When you urgently need a frozen treat without leaving the house to get it, the most satisfying shortcut might be a cold and fluffy no-churn ice cream. Made from sweetened condensed milk and whipped cream, it’s almost absurdly minimalist and doesn’t even require an ice cream machine. There’s no fussing over curdle-prone egg yolks, because…
Hi! I’m back from vacation — rested, sunburned and extremely well-fed. Although cooking is part of my livelihood, it’s also my happy place, and a vacation gives me more time and head space to revel in it. I could take as much time as I liked dreaming up meal plans, experimenting with new ingredients, fussing…
Capers in our house could end up anywhere. My mother used to mix them with some soft herbs and olive oil to make a kind of rough salsa verde and spoon it over fried or roasted cauliflower. She also introduced them into German-style potato salads, with onion, mustard and broth. My father would fry the…