Jenn Garbee

When the hand-crank version of a trusty household appliance is still in your garage, you could view it as a sign that engineering improvements over the years have hardly been necessary. Either that, or ice cream manufacturers took a rather slow, lumbering stroll down the Industrial Revolution highway (perhaps a......

Angelo Cammarata, the longest-serving bartender on record, is retiring after 77 years of cocktail shaking. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the bartender has sold his family business, in part due to health complications suffered by one of his sons, who had managed Cammarata's Cafe. The Pittsburgh bartender has been serving......

Anthony Anguille knows his pu-erh, the pressed large leaf tea prized for its earthy flavor and wine-like proclivity to aging. The 22-year-old is the "tea sommelier" at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. "A colleague had introduced a tea program to pair with spa services and it just became my obsession,"......

Blame it on the Rain. The current issue of Wine Spectator has the phrase "BEST EVER California Pinot Noir" splashed across the front page. The editors are referring not only to Sonoma, but as far north as Anderson Valley in Mendocino County and as close to home as Santa Barbara......

Food 52, a website created by former New York Times food section staff writer Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, a freelance food writer, will be an interactive recipe forum and contest for home cooks when it launches on September 15. The winners will be published in a book by HarperStudio......

If managing your blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts and trying to find time to cook has left you stressed at all the multi-tasking, perhaps it's time consider a little advice from Stanley Mason. The prolific inventor was adept at coming up with an idea and allowing others to futz over......

The Psychology of Wine: Truth and Beauty by the Glass by Evan and Brian Mitchell sounds like another book from wine experts telling us which wines to love--and which to scoff at. Sounds like exactly what we don't need, right? Taste buds have worked just fine for thousands of years......

Whenever Martin Angino spies a regular customer across the street, he slides back the mesh screen beside his grill and shoves his body halfway through the window, arms flailing as he fires off an enthusiastic hello. Angino is a fixture on Manhattan Beach Boulevard. He's passed paper-wrapped cheeseburgers, Dodger dogs......

In October, the rock band KISS will release its first new LP since Psycho Circus, the band's 1998 reunion album. In conjunction (read: marketing brilliance), KISS will also release limited edition, namesake M&M's. Think of it as Mars candy-covered chocolate meets Hershey's Kisses. Well, sort of. For those who didn't......

If burping cows are significant contributors to global warming, will those of us who let out the occasional lager-laden belch after downing a few cold ones soon be subject to EPA regulations? Not to worry. Anyone suffering from gastro-intestinal beer consumption guilt will be relieved to learn that Karl Strauss......