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Classify the latest bourbon roast from North Central College’s state-of-the-art Coffee Lab as a curiosity.

Jerry Thalmann, associa

Plano-based NuZee, the producer and co-packer of single-serve coffee products, has appointed Nobuyuki Idei and Yoshinori Hashitani as its newest advisors.

Idei, the current chairman of Quantum Leaps Corporation and former chairman and group chief executive officer of Sony Corporation, an

Like all kitchen appliances, blenders come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Depending on your needs, there’s a blender out there designed to do it all — crush ice, heat soups, chop food, and even blend on the go. Whether you’re shopping for a blender that fits in small spaces or a machi

Welcome to finalist voting for the 13th Annual Sprudgie Awards, presented by Pacific Barista Series. From a global pool of nominees comes a final list of finalists: eight choices per category, plus the opportunity to write in the candidate of your choice. Please vote using the ballot here, an

To some people, stocking up at the grocery store is just another weekly chore that needs to get checked off the list, often begrudgingly so. For self-identified foodies, it's the best part of their week — perusing new products, dreaming up new recipe ideas, and loading up on their must-have

If you can’t be recyclable, at least be biodegradable.

The first option is for reincarnationists. It’s dust to dust for the rest of us. Deep subject.

Oddly enough (I’m good at odd) it was this year’s quintessential Christmas gifts for hard-to-buy-for family members that pro

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by Teresa Kenny, Orangetown Town Superviso

It's the end of days for plastic grocery bags and Styrofoam takeout containers in Canada.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault published draft regulations Tuesday outlining how Canada will ban the manufacture, sale and import of these items, along with plastic cutlery, stir sticks, str

We reveal our top 10 selection from this year’s Rioja Masters competition, which ranges from a joven to a very old gran reserva; a pale salmon rosado to a barrel-fermented blanco, along with a couple of outstanding single-vineyard options taking in the newly formed Viñedo Singular classific

This has been hard, really hard. I’m talking about selecting just 10 wines from the thousands I sample ‘blind’ on an annual basis through our wide range of competitions, which take in tastings by grape, style, region and country, under the name, The Global Masters.

There are so man