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A Small Number Of Women Are Helping To Lead Africa’s Craft Brewing Business. They’re using the pandemic’s forced isolation to turn inward toward more local ingredients and one another.

Many in the wine profession—an industry long dominated by white people and stereotypes about Black wine consumers—also performed self-inventory in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The name Meritage is a combination of the words merit and heritage. And how to say it? It rhymes with heritage.

It’s almost March, which means retailers across the country are preparing to hit the reset button and stock their shelves with new drinks for spring. Here are seven new hard seltzer that recently hit my radar.

Dahlia is the newest bottle of the budding cristalino craze

“If the pandemic did nothing else, it exposed the rotten core of the restaurant industry: the exploitation of labor.” Devita Davison, Executive Director of FoodLab Detroit, on radical business models, inspiring entrepreneurs, and transforming the restaurant industry.

Chief Richard Currie, the new and youngest Chief ever of the Sovereign State of Accompong Maroons of Cockpit Country Jamaica, believes that a return to the land should be the primary means of driving economic development for the Maroon people, who he says are 50-years behind where they need to be.

"It's a scary time," says Banza CEO Brian Rudolph, whose company recently launched a chickpea-based pizza line.

“She was a real entrepreneur,” Cindi Bigelow told me, now CEO of Bigelow Tea. “She found an old colonial (tea) recipe, and....that is how the iconic Constant Comment tea came to be. Today, the 75-year old tea company has to deal with the challenge of climate change. It’s complicated.

Pepsi is getting into the cocktail mixer space with a new line of cocktail mixers called Neon Zebra.