We taste-tested eight boxed chocolate cake mixes you're likely to find at your local supermarket or online. To find the very ...

Have a favorite Christmas ale from an Akron-area brewery? Beacon staffers did a blind taste test of 14 Christmas ales, and ...

The actor hid backstage while the group sipped his new tequila — and then gave them the surprise of a lifetime Gotcha! Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson surprised some lucky fans (and debuted his bartending ...

"Wine is bottled poetry," Robert Louis Stevenson wrote. But for this story, blend in a little Shakespeare, who said, "What's in a name?" The name here is Replica, as in: replicas of famous wines that ...

Bureau of Home Economics employees blindfold their taste testers so the sight of the turkey doesn't bias any responses, 1930s. National Archives Lucy Alexander boasted one of the strangest jobs on the ...

There's one surprisingly simple sidekick you need for pro-level chocolate tasting — think of it as a palate reset that's ...

Looking for a not too sweet soda alternative at Whole Foods in Venice, California about seven years ago, I picked up a clear glass bottle with a white and blue label that read, “G.T.‘s Kombucha.” The ...

Judging by the dairy case at the supermarket, ever-increasing numbers of Americans are settling back with tall, cool glasses of Not-Quite-Milk. Soy, rice, and lactose-free products occupy as much ...

Lisa Schroeder has a pretty sweet job. For the past 16 years, Schroeder has worked for Mars Chocolate — a segment of the $33 billion Mars candy, petcare, and beverage company. Mars Chocolate produces ...

There's hot sauce, and then there's hot sauce. Audie Cornish puts reporter Allison Aubrey to the taste test at Rocklands BBQ in Arlington, Va. And I'm Robert Siegel. A recent financial analysis of the ...