AltWeeklies Wire
Champagne is Just 45 Minutes from Parisnew
We sip the world's most famous bubbly.
INDY Week |
Arturo Ciompi |
10-18-2007 |
Food+Drink
What's Really in Your Food?new
It's becoming increasingly more difficult to discern how our food was grown, processed and treated, thanks to our collective support of a food industry that wields its heft and political clout to create labeling laws that make a mockery of disclosure.
INDY Week |
Suzanne Nelson |
10-11-2007 |
Food+Drink
A Gray Market for Raw Milk?new
Earlier this month, the North Carolina Board of Agriculture voted unanimously to adopt a rule that requires the addition of gray dye to all unpasteurized milk sold in the state.
INDY Week |
Suzanne Nelson |
09-27-2007 |
Food+Drink
Your Wine Questions Answerednew
What gives with merlot? Should I buy my wine-loving friend a bottle for a present? How do I pair for vegetarian dishes?
INDY Week |
Arturo Ciompi |
09-21-2007 |
Food+Drink
Everywine: The Miracle of 'Two Buck Chuck'?new
Charles Shaw Winery is the Everyman of the wine universe, that ordinary individual whom the public roots for in the face of extraordinary circumstances.
INDY Week |
Arturo Ciompi |
08-23-2007 |
Food+Drink
Jim Early is On North Carolina's Historic Barbecue Trailnew
The founder of the North Carolina Barbecue Society and author of The Best Tar Heel Barbecue talks about his latest project, compiling the NCBS Historic Barbecue Trail.
INDY Week |
Fiona Morgan |
07-12-2007 |
Food+Drink
The Path to a Locally Sustainable Food Systemnew
April McGreger's "kilt" lettuce salad offers a taste of North Carolina's past and future.
INDY Week |
Sidney Cruze |
06-22-2007 |
Food+Drink
Ecstatic Sauvignon Blancnew
If you've ever drunk a white Bordeaux, Sancerre or Pouilly Fume, then you already know the seductive charms of sauvignon blanc.
INDY Week |
Arturo Ciompi |
06-22-2007 |
Food+Drink
Drink It Rawnew

Why is unpasteurized milk the only illegal food in North Carolina?
INDY Week |
Suzanne Nelson |
06-21-2007 |
Food+Drink
Wine Retail is All About Servicenew
Readers have difficulty tracking down Portuguese wines with unhelpful clerks.
INDY Week |
Arturo Ciompi |
05-10-2007 |
Food+Drink
Wine's Moldy Oldiesnew
In 1987, exceptional Bordeaux reds from the 1950s were available for purchase at what today can only be called insane prices. Insane because, as opposed to the cutthroat expense of such wines today, nobody was very interested!
INDY Week |
Arturo Ciompi |
04-19-2007 |
Food+Drink
Wine's Odd Men Outnew
Unusual red blends make fascinating drinking.
INDY Week |
Arturo Ciompi |
03-22-2007 |
Food+Drink
Christmas Eve, Southern-Italian-American Stylenew
Abstaining from meat on Christmas Eve is a Southern Italian and Sicilian tradition, brought across the ocean by the great wave of immigrants at the turn of the last century.
INDY Week |
Maria Mangano |
01-02-2007 |
Food+Drink
Lately of Spainnew
A wine critic presents a diary of Iberian discovery.
INDY Week |
Arturo Ciompi |
06-14-2006 |
Food+Drink
Something's Fishynew
Well, that "organic salmon" label does stand for at least one thing: increased profit margins.
INDY Week |
David Auerbach |
06-01-2006 |
Food+Drink