Betsy Andrews
I'm a journalist, editor, and poet
Food, wine, beer, spirits and cocktails, travel, the environment, garden, home, health, poetry and the arts
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Biodynamics Goes Big
How wine companies are scaling up an agricultural method thought to be hands-on and highly personal
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Creating a Game-Changing Wine List in Napa
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After you’ve run one of the country’s greatest wine programs, what’s next? Consulting, importing, writing—many wine directors leave service behind. Not Ryan Stetins and Matt Stamp. They’ve devoted their next steps emphatically to the restaurant floor. At Compline, launched in September 2017, the partners are creating a unique footprint for wine service in California’s Napa Valley. With a list that straddles the divide between new thrills and stellar classics and between far-...
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Borderland Rebellion
From climate change to a border wall, the oft-overlooked but critically important scrubland plants in South Texas face myriad threats. To save them, this self-taught naturalist is taking matters into his own hands.
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Cathy Corison Leads by Example
After four decades, the Napa Valley is finally catching up to this pioneer
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Transforming a Passion into a Digital Business
How Grover and Scarlet Sanschagrin of Tequila Matchmaker are carving out a new niche in drinks
rodalesorganiclife.com
Could Young Organic Farmers Stop Climate Change?
The next generation of organic farmers doesn't just want to grow food—they want a better system. And they need our help.
Food & Wine
A Trip Along the Tequila Trail in Jalisco, Mexico
In Jalisco, you’re never far from an agave field or the delicious, distilled fruits of the harvest.
Food & Wine
14 of the Anderson Valley's Most Delicious Wines
Discover California’s wildest, most earth-friendly wine region.
A winding, hour-long drive north from Sonoma lands you in Mendocino County, California’s wildest, most earth-friendly wine region. From its main growing area, the Anderson Valley, on up and further inland through Hopland and Ukiah, Mendocino’s 10 appellations boast the most organic, biodynamic, and certified fish-friendly vineyards in the state.
Here, high altitudes, ocean breezes, and big swings in daytime and nighttime temperat...
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Crafting a Spanish Wine List That Speaks for Itself
At the Durham tapas bar Mateo, the beverage director makes navigating Iberian wines easy
munchies.vice.com
Tahiti's Global Cuisine Is Best Experienced Through Its Food Trucks
The menus reflect the mashup of cultures that have shaped the cuisine of the islands: Chinese stir-fries and Thai-style curries, Polynesian fresh and cured fish dishes, globalized pizza, and French classics.
Arrive Magazine
Blossoming Behind Bars
Prison garden programs bring vocational and therapeutic benefits to inmates
Food & Wine
Puerto Rican Farmers and Relief Volunteers Take a Moment to Celebrate
Months after Hurricane Maria, the fight to get small producers back on their feet still feels overwhelming and brutal. On January 30, a fundraising push offered small glimpses of hope
rodalesorganiclife.com
Pride of Peru
High in the Andes, an ancient harvest yields beautiful, organic potatoes—and a spectacular method for cooking them
Eater
Big Sur Is Beautiful. It's Also a Hard Place to Run a Restaurant
How businesses cope with natural disaster along the California coast