The Copenhagen-based restaurant was awarded the accolade at last night’s San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards.

Noma, run by 32 year old Rene Redzepi, pushed Ferran Adria’s Ell Bulli, which has held the title for the last 4 years, into second place.

Former Mondavi CEO Michael Mondavi has admitted that a large number of non-profitable California wineries will change hands ‘under duress’ this year.

More than 95 percent of the bananas sold in the U.S. are Cavendish, the cultivar that has dominated the market since the 1970s. But a handful of the thousand or so other banana varieties out there are becoming available to consumers in the country.

TransFair USA, the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, congratulates the Fair Trade Certified™ CECOVASA Coffee Cooperative of Peru for winning top honors in the 2010 Roasters Guild Coffees of the Year Competition

Fleur de sel is a type of sea salt, primarily harvested in Brittany, France. In French, the name means “flower of salt,” and as this implies, fleur de sel is very delicate and fluffy.

Certain drinks are synonymous with specific countries. It might be tea in China, wine in France, coffee in Italy or Tequila in Mexico. But, our traditional perceptions of how the world drinks have been challenged over the past decade, and this is reflected by a new generation of dynamic niche categories, notably functional drinks, flavored milk, soy beverages, drinking yoghurt as well as RTD tea, coffee and premixes.

The wine industry has gone to war over likely changes to alcohol taxes that could more than triple the price of a $10 cask of wine but cut the price of bottled wines over $27.

Researchers at Columbia University in New York have discovered a link between certain foods included in the diet and a reduction in the risk of Alzheimer’s.

The latest national figures suggest Canadian palates are becoming somewhat more cosmopolitan when it comes to alcohol. Numbers released by StatsCan show that imported beer has more than doubled its market share in the last decade, while the amount of wine consumed continues to grow.

Tahitian Noni International (TNI) announced that sales of Tahitian Noni® Extra™ have exceeded all expectations, and that it has been a challenge to fill all of the product requests for the new bioactive beverage.