What do bread, wine, cheese, chocolate, coffee, soy sauce, yogurt and beer have in common?

They're all fermented... and healthy.

 

Just like an apple, a glass of wine a day might just keep the doctor away.

Good organic wines aren't always easy to come by, but I've found some favorites.

Chris O'Brian, author of Drink Beer, Save the World, discusses what exactly makes a beer organic and explains the differences in flavor of various beers and ales from IPAs to English Bitters.

Brace yourselves, wine aficionados: Climate change could spell big problems for Italy's noble grape in the near future.

A handful of progressive wine makers have figured out what kindergartners have known all along: Drinks can be great when they come in a juicebox.

A yoga retreat at a vineyard might sound like bliss to some, but purists aren't so sure that wine and yoga belong together.

by Ellen Kaye

Tony Coturri balks at the idea of slapping a "certified organic" label on his wines. Although his is probably the only winery in California that could qualify as 100% organic, Coturri believes that making natural wine should "just be what you do." If he had his way, winemakers would be forced to list all their ingredients on the bottle—sulfites, fungicides, herbicides, pesticides, yeast additives—the whole lot. And what would the Coturri bottle say? "Just Grapes."

Tipplers take note: If global warming persists, experts say it'll destroy the Pacific Coast's wine country within the century.

If your tummy won’t tolerate cow’s milk, but does fine with goat’s, you’re in for a sweet treat this summer. But you don’t need dairy issues to savor a super-rich pint of Laloo's Goat's Milk Ice Cream, in seven exotic flavors plus vanilla. Who dreamt up goat’s milk ice cream, and why?

Laloo’s founder, Laura Howard, a certified Hatha yoga instructor and slow foodie, was following a strict one-year diet without cow’s milk under the guidance of her yoga teacher, who recommended goat instead. Basically, her frozen dessert hankerings soon got the best of her, as did the horrors of industrial dairy farming, and the rest is history. She founded Laloo’s Goat’s Milk Ice Cream Company in the vineyard-covered hills of California’s Sonoma County less than two years ago, and her edible creations have drawn obsessed ice cream extremists ever since.