Taste Radio: Funding Favors the Few. Chefs Favor the Simple.

In a year clouded by economic uncertainty, you’d think investors would be clinging to their cash. But by the looks of things, maybe not? This episode also features an interview with acclaimed Boston-based chefs Jamie Bissonnette and Kenta Katagai as they take us behind the scenes of an unforgettable culinary collaboration.

In Memoriam: BevNET Chairman Jack Craven

It’s with great sadness that we’re writing to note the passing of Jack Craven, the Chairman of BevNET, father of our CEO and founder, John Craven, and father-in-law to our COO, Carolyn Craven.

California Distillery Takes On New York Over Shipping Restrictions

A Los Angeles craft spirits producer is taking on the Empire State in a federal lawsuit filed yesterday challenging direct-to-consumer shipping laws prohibiting distillers in California from sending spirits to customers in New York.

Daily Briefing (Insiders Only): MAHA Pegs Soda Against SNAP

What’s good for MAHA may not be so nice for Big CSD. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is moving quickly to approve state requests to pull soda and candy from the Supplemental Food Assistance Program (SNAP), the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.