Food

Watching ‘Wild, Wild Country’? Then You Need to See The Rajneesh Cookbook.

“When you share food, you become brothers because food is associated with love,” the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh wrote in his book The Mustard Seed. If you watched the Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country, you already know that the Bhagwan, also known as Osho, was an Indian self-help guru who attracted thousands of followers from around the world with his talk about sex and joy as a path to super-consciousness.

Not your grandfather's port: will fortified wine ever enjoy a revival?

Across the US, tawny port struggles to make inroads with millennial revelers. Is it doomed to the periphery of cocktail culture, or can port brands make it cool?

If you were ever pressed to guess what JRR Tolkien drank after a long day of writing The Lord of the Rings, port seems a safe bet.

Inside Helsinki’s Ever-Growing Coffee Scene.

'Finns love coffee so much because you can’t drink alcohol all the time,' says one local. What tea is to the UK, coffee is to Finland. Earlier this year, Finns were named the top coffee consumers in the world by the International Coffee Organisation – they drink an impressive 12kg per person per year, compared to the UK’s 2.8kg and Italy’s 5.8kg. That’s roughly 10 cups of coffee a day, usually served hot and dark and frequently paired with a korvapuusti – a traditional Finnish cinnamon roll whose name translates as ‘slapped ears’.

The History Behind Texas Funeral Cake.

Funerals are a sad fact of life and when they come —and they will— you need to go to the funeral. And if you are going to a funeral in Texas, you should show up with a cake. Specifically, a Texas-sized chocolate sheet cake, which has become such a common fixture at the tables at funeral potlucks that it has earned the name Texas Funeral Cake.

Farm to flask: Inside the world of craft distilling.

Tom Burkleaux got his license to distill in 2004 and has been making his New Deal vodka ever since. His company, New Deal Distillery, has grown steadily since then, adding products such as an award-winning spicy vodka, called Hot Monkey, a sweetly spicy ginger liqueur and a well-regarded gin to their liquor line-up. Over the last decade, the company has grown to include more than two dozen employees. This year, Burkleaux expects the company to ship 7,000-10,000 cases of hand crafted liquor to five states and three foreign countries.