A little less than a year ago Jess Jackson's Artisans and Estates Vineyards & Wineries bought La Jota Vineyard Company on Howell Mountain, described as a historical winery.

If you're planning a trip to Russia anytime this year, don't count on having any imported wine for dinner.

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August is the perfect month to treat your family to homemade ice cream and sorbet.

TOWNSHIP 19, Maine -- With a cadence that has swept Maine's vast swaths of wild blueberries for generations, hundreds of Micmac and Passamaquoddy Indians stoop in the August sun, dragging rakes across fields that shimmer blue.

Indian bread is the tortilla of American Indians of the Northeast. The dense, chewy bread tastes like a cross between a dumpling and a muffin and is eaten with everything. It is especially good dunked in molasses or accompanying baked beans.