America
Norht and South America.
Mexican lasagna
This is one of the recipes that came to Arizona from Mexico; probably based in the typical quesadillas - corn tortillas filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables, and baked - also very popular. Corn tortillas are used in place of the traditional lasagna sheets.
Beef brisket
Serve beef brisket with boiled potatoes or potato mash - with no milk, cheese, or butter.
Feijoada
A hearty bean dish in the best Brazilian and Portuguese traditions. Not only beans, count on finding almost every part of the pork, including sausages, and some beef.
California wine regions
California is the main wine producer in the United States of America. Many a grape variety has found a new home there.
Wine in Chile, Olé
Blessed with a Mediterranean climate similar to France or California, Chile has the added advantage of being south of the equator. That puts their summers from November to March, allowing them to harvest wine during the off-season of many other countries. Time shifting allows them to satisfy the market when others can't.
Wine in Canada
Canada makes wine. Climate is a challenge and most of the territory is not suitable, nevertheless, Canada is producing some world class wines.
Wine in Canada, British Columbia
Long considered a producer of inferior wines, British Columbia is now being recognized as a winemaking powerhouse.
Wine in Argentina
The early wine history of Argentina is similar to that for Chile both in time and the Spanish colonization.
Wine and beer
Cornell University offers an advanced course titled 'Understanding Wine and Beer'. Topics covered range from the history of viticulture to the microbiology of fermentation to the neurobiology of taste, along with the expected lectures on chemistry, color and tasting methods. Clearly, the two most popular alcoholic drinks have arrived.
How to make homemade wine
It started like this: I was 18 years old, on the beginning of a new life, in a new home, and too young to buy alcohol legally. The problem was, I really liked wine. I had been drinking it socially for years, but on someone else’s dime.