Lastest Stories by Colman Andrews

The restaurant business is full of challenges, not the least of which is the necessity for restaurateurs to keep up with the times. Foodservice is an industry whose parameters change constantly,...
According to a new report published by Wine & Spirits Daily, the fastest-growing liquor brand in America is — yet again — Texas-made Tito’s vodka. Launched by Bert “Tito” Beveridge...
As in most other areas of human endeavor, fads and trends come and go in the world of food and drink. It isn’t always easy to tell the difference between the two, but trends are basically the fads...
Though other options are available (goose, duck, capon, even tofurkey), most people who cook Thanksgiving dinner roast a turkey. For much of the year, when we eat turkey, it’s in the form of sliced...
No music genre has evolved more than country music. From its bluegrass origins, country music has been sliced and diced into country pop, the Nashville sound, outlaw country, cowpunk, bro-country,...
The countdown has started for this year’s Country Music Awards — among the music industry’s most prestigious honors. This year’s ceremony is scheduled to be broadcast live on ABC-TV on Nov....
It seems like it was only yesterday that we were shaking beach sand out of our shoes, grilling burgers in the backyard, and complaining about the humidity. Now, all of a sudden, there’s a chill in...
Teeth are the hardest things in the body, and some of the most practical. Without them, we couldn’t chew our food into easier digestibility; we’d have a hard time making ourselves understood when...
The real challenge in compiling a list of America’s best dive bars comes in defining just what a dive bar is and isn’t. Like “speakeasy,” “dive bar” is a term whose meaning has evolved...
Nutritionists and doctors have long told us that too much salt is bad for us. It causes the body to retain excess fluid, raising blood pressure and increasing our risk of stroke, heart failure,...
It could be dangerous for your little Avengers superhero or Disney princess going door to door to beg for candy this Halloween — but probably not for the reasons you might think. Warning the kids...
Americans drink a lot of coffee — about 400 million cups every day. Some 64% of the population drinks at least one cup a day, and many of us obviously exceed that. And in 2018, coffee consumption...
We love our chicken in America. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that we ate about 93.8 pounds of it per person last year. A 2018 survey of chicken-eating habits conducted by the National...
Are Americans becoming jaded about Halloween? Probably not — though according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), shoppers plan to spend a collective $8.8 billion on the holiday this year,...
How many beers does it take for you to feel drunk? If you answered 3.5, you are an average American. Any more, and you’re more like Arizonans and Michiganders, any less, and you’re more like...