At most food festivals, the drinks feel like an afterthought. They’re usually more about quantity than quality, with few options beyond heavily distributed, mass-produced beer and wine to go with a ...

Bread, alcohol, dill pickles or cheese might come to mind when you think of foods that ferment, but one food that doesn't usually make the list? Chocolate. Now, however, scientists and producers are ...

Wine has been made by humans for about 7,000 years, and experts agree that until quite recently it may not have tasted very good. For millennia wine has been the ultimate expression of agriculture, ...

If you’re a foodie or a farmer, a DIY enthusiast or home kitchen tinkerer, or merely a conscientious objector in the battle to standardize, industrialize and globalize every last human commodity, you ...

The Wild World Fermentation Festival lands in Brooklyn with wines, ciders and beer from more than 50 producers. By Florence Fabricant The trial run for Wild World Fermentation Festival, a natural wine ...

Vicki Denig is a wine and travel journalist who divides her time between New York and Paris. She is a certified wine specialist who has worked in the wine trade since 2013. The techniques used to ...