Like many winemakers, Mitch Black scrambled to find a place to store his wine last year when the largest grape crop in California history unleashed a flood of wine. Companies that make wooden barrels ...

It’s very likely that your fridge has never been fuller than it is right now. Sure, you’re going to the grocery store less, but you’re buying more when you would on a typical shopping trip. Most ...

In the days before refrigerators, chemical preservatives, and fossil-fueled transportation, starving to death in the winter was a much more pervasive fear. Fermentation first arose more than 10,000 ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Salt, water and time. The rest is up to the microbes. That’s the formula behind lactic acid fermentation, in which yeasts and bacteria convert starches or sugars into lactic ...