American versions of India pale ale are usually hop bombs -- you get the flavor, aroma and bitterness of hops in every single sip and sniff of the beer.

Natick's Ming Tsai, owner of Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, challenged grads to value service over celebrity in a speech to graduates from The Culinary Institute of America on Friday, Nov. 6.

Sel de la Terre in the Natick Collection is hosting inventive dinners featuring game like Scottish hare, North American wild boar and New Zealand venison.

Nowadays, for a craft beer to get any kind of buzz, it has to be high in alcohol, hard to get or full of exotic ingredients.

Contestants burned their tastebuds off Thursday in Jake's Dixie Roadhouse's hot chicken wing contest featuring the incendiary sauces of chili pepper guru "Mad Dog" David Ashley, president of Ashley Food Co. Inc., a Sudbury-based distributor of Mad Dog sauces and other products.

Boston Beer Company has just released its Samuel Adams Barrel Room Collection, a series of three new beers brewed and bottled exclusively at the Jamaica Plain brewery.

Bruce Surprenant does not like beer. But he loves jams and jellies that are made with craft beers.

Tricking and treating may be all about the kids, but this grown up use for candy corn will give adults yet another reason to raid the little ones' goodie bags.

If you're looking for easy, no-recipe-needed Halloween treats, these creeped out cupcakes are an eerily good choice. In one, a traditional frosted cupcake falls victim to a bat attack. In the other, they take a slimy, almost radioactive, turn.

After the Caymus Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon ($150) was poured into my glass, I toasted Gatsby, then sipped and savored the taste of splendid wine.

The Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival was in full swing and I reveled in it, enjoying myself immensely.