Have you ever wondered who produced your artisanal olive oil or your locally-made cheese and wine? Chances are that you’re imagining gruff men toiling away in dusty groves or inspecting huge oak barrels. And while that may be the case in many instances, it most certainly hasn’t always been that way in Israel, where women were just as much pioneers as men in the country’s pre-state and early days.

In a virtual ceremony held this week, the winners of this year’s André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards 2020 were announced out of a shortlist of four drinks titles and seven food tomes.

The winners of the 2020 André Simon Awards were announced on Wednesday 3 March, in a Zoom ceremony attended by an international audience.

Have you experienced how cold weather drives cravings for hearty foods and matching red wines?

The wines of Georgia are having a moment, and it is about time. Wine is very old in Georgia, the cradle of wine, but Georgian wines are relatively new on the markets here in the United States, as Georgian producers pivot from dependence on Russia and former Soviet states and work hard to develop markets in the UK, EU, US, and China.

COVID-19 has presented so many challenges, but one silver lining is that for working remotely from home many, can mean working from anywhere. Destinations worldwide, which have seen tourism decline seriously during the pandemic, are taking advantage of this new way of remote working, offering long-stay visas that allow foreigners the opportunity to live and work in their country.

Common in red winemaking, the idea of extended skin contact is now on trend for whites, too.

The country of Georgia, which sits at the border between Asia and Europe, is joining the growing list of countries reopening to vaccinated travelers.

The subterranean air was thick and dank. A lightbulb hanging from the ceiling cast ominous shadows on the stone walls. I crowded into a circle of strangers and peered into a large, teardrop-shaped clay vessel, one of many buried in the groundwater around me.

Georgia is a Russian nesting doll of a country. In the past century alone, it has experienced more than its share of golden glory, fierce combat, intrigue, revolution and despair; and behind every story, there’s yet another life waiting to be discovered.