food and drink
Baking great cookies is not just an art. It's science
At this time of year, just about everybody is baking cookies (that is, if they're not making latkes, but that's another story). How many times have you stuck a batch of cookies in the oven only to have them emerge nothing like you imagined? Understanding the science behind the perfect cookie could help preserve your baking reputation.
For this wine expert, sherry is a 'celebration of leisure'
Okay, kids: 'L' is for licorice — and also for lead
How Oregon became a paradise for beer drinkers
The French president separates his D-Day allies when it comes to dinner
Panamanians go ga-ga for a chicken stew called Sancocho
Sancocho is a bowl of stew that you might eat at breakfast, lunch or dinner. Or even if you’re nursing a hangover. Food writer Steve Dolinsky describes his first taste of what can rightly lay claim to being Panama's national dish.
Sudan's pride is a soda that tastes like, well, whatever you think it tastes like
When people immigrate to the US, they not only leave behind family and friends, they leave behind the sights, scents and flavors of home. Reporter Hana Baba went back to Sudan to find her favorite soda, unmatched by any in the US.
Which came first? Mexico's famous drink, or the town that distills it?
For today's Geo Quiz, we asked a man whose family has been growing agave cactus for four generations to tell us the origin of the name Tequila. The liquor is made by baking and distilling the cactus.
A banner year for New England apples brought back a family's cider-making tradition
The World's environment editor Peter Thomson thought his family's old apple trees were pretty much played out, until this fall, when they exploded with fruit and brought back a tradition.
Hallelujah, America has its first Trappist beer
For centuries Trappist monks have been brewing beer in Belgium. Now for the first time the old world tradition has come to the new world to St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, MA.