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The article discusses U.S. luxury real-estate developments that offer access to nature preserves during the early 21st century. It discusses the San Clemente, California, development Sea Summit, the Georgia development Serenbe, and homes near Spring Island, South Carolina. The article presents comments from Atlanta, Georgia, photographer and Serenbe home owner Rob Brinson.

The article discusses Los Angeles, California, luxury homes on the real estate market as of early October 2015 that were once home to several significant actors and actresses including Bert Lahr, Betty Grable, and Don Johnson. The article also discusses privacy desired by actors, the challenges of selling homes owned by movie stars, and the impact of the sale price of homes previously owned by actors. The article presents comments from Los Angeles real estate agent Edward Fitz.

The article discusses an early 21st century U.S. real estate trend in which luxury home purchasers buy homes that are marketed and treated as teardowns in order to build new luxury homes featuring technological innovations and modern amenities. It discusses the razing of a 19th-century mansion in Darien, Connecticut, teardowns in a section of Beverly Hills, California, known as Trousdale Estates, and a house in Chicago, Illinois, near the baseball stadium Wrigley Field.

The article discusses the remodeling of bedrooms by empty nesters that housed children who have moved out of luxury homes in the U.S. and the reaction of some of those children to the changes in their former bedrooms. The article discusses the repurposing of bedrooms as home offices, yoga studios, and snore rooms. It discusses the Great Neck, New York, home of interior designer Evelyn Benatar, the Carmel, California, home of homeowner Elizabeth Smith, and the home of Dix Hills, New York, attorney Darlene Javits.

The article discusses commercial and residential development in the downtown area of San Antonio, Texas. Real-estate development firm Weston Urban, co-founded by Graham Weston and Randy Smith, is creating a 120,000-square-foot communal workspace for professionals in the technology industry. Public infrastructure planned or under construction includes a streetcar project and an expanded convention center.

The article discusses the phenomenon of U.S. chefs who own farms to grow the food that they cook. Chefs noted include Jose Garces, Zakary Pelaccio, and David Bouley. Topics include the inexperience of the chefs as farmers, problems with crop failure, and the study of crops for nutritional and taste value by Bouley.

The article looks at a trend in which chefs at U.S. restaurants are replacing ingredients which contain high-fructose corn syrup with sweeteners such as honey, agave nectar, and palm sugar. Chef Matt Gordon of the Urban Solace restaurant in San Diego, California, discusses how he spent $15,000 to make sure his food and drinks all contain sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup.

The article examines sourdough bread baking in the U.S. An increasing number of persons are using sourdough "starters," a mixture of dough and yeast, to bake their own bread as interest in home cooking has risen during the recession. The devotion of the bakers to their starters and the difficulties in maintaining the mixture are discussed.

The article discusses design features of some upscale restaurants in the U.S. that make them particularly noisy. Large cavernous dining areas with high ceilings, tables in close proximity to each other, and hardwood floors instead of carpets all contribute to a more cacophonous dining experience. Specific restaurants are noted, as is advice on getting a relatively quiet table.

The article discusses the increased availability in U.S. retail outlets of beef that carries a "prime" rating from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Customarily USDA prime beef is sold mainly to high-end steak houses. Amid a recession that has seen restaurant patronage decline, though, steak-house orders for prime beef have fallen, thus making more available for stores.

The article discusses lunch trucks in the U.S. that specialize in high-end fare. Joshua Henderson, who attended the Culinary Institute of America owns two trucks in Seattle, Washington. A truck in New York City is owned by a former pastry chef at restaurant Le Cirque in New York City. Some trucks use Web sites such as Twitter to keep customers informed of their whereabouts. INSET: The Truck Stops Here.

The article discusses efforts by high-end restaurants in the U.S. to attract customers during an economic recession. Some have resorted to fare not usually associated with haute cuisine. Chef Eric Greenspan has converted his $1.3 million Los Angeles restaurant into a lounge that sometimes serves fried chicken and waffles.

The article discusses chefs and other restaurateurs who plan to open expensive new restaurants amid a severe economic recession in the U.S. Although some expect spending on fine dining to decline by as much as 15% in 2009, several entrepreneurs including Wolfgang Puck and Terrance Brennan intend to debut multi-million dollar outlets.

This section offers news briefs on U.S. private properties that are being sold as of August 2015. It announces the sale of an estate in Beverly Hills, California formerly owned by comedian Danny Thomas. Other properties on sale are the traditional Hamptons home owned by private equity executive Gary Garrabant, the oceanfront house of technology entrepreneur Michael Barrick in California, and the Bridgehampton house owned by Internet entrepreneur Matt Coffin and interior designer Natasha Esch.

The article discusses "sushi bullies," men who brook no dissent on any matter related to sushi. Chef Noboru Inoue in San Francisco has scolded diners for using soy sauce. Chef Kazunori Nozawa in Studio City, California has ejected patrons from his restaurant for taking too long to eat, or asking to use a cell phone. Sushi bullies tend to be traditionalists, and they almost universally despise the California roll.

The article discusses the surging popularity of umami-flavored foods. Umami refers to a savory, meat-like flavor, which has caught the attention of chefs and packaged food companies. The concept of umami has been known in Asia for almost 100 years but has only recently gained recognition in the U.S.

The article focuses on a number of restaurants in the United States that use everyday products--available at a supermarket--to create upmarket entrées. Among the products that chefs are using are: ketchup, jarred mayonnaise, canned creamed corn, and Fritos. The article mentions how chefs are becoming comfortable talking about this practice, which was formerly a secret technique.

The article focuses on chefs who are distinguishing their restaurants with specialty meats. The trend includes restaurant co-owner Parker Bosley whose menu features Dorset and Dorper lamb and Large Black pork and Colin Alevraz whose menu has Red Wattle pork. The advantages of getting involved in breeding are mentioned. Five restaurants that have animals bred for them are David Burke's Primehouse in Chicago, Parker's New American Bistro in Cleveland, and Il Buco, Mas and The Tasting Room, all in New York.

Reports that the beef industry is marketing new, less-costly cuts of meat in an effort to increase sales as beef prices near record-highs. How restaurants and supermarkets are increasingly offering the value steaks, which are cut from the chuck (shoulder) and the round (hind quarters) of the cow; Consideration of several cuts, such as Center steak and Flat Iron steak; Analysis of the beef industry as of June 30, 2005.

Reports on the ruling on wine shipping by the United States Supreme Court and how it could affect the wine industry. How the court declared that laws restricting the shipment of wine across the country were unconstitutional; Assertion that the Court's ruling will not directly make an impact on consumers and the way they purchase wine; Opponents of the effort to loosen wine laws; Assertion that direct shipping of wine is not likely to account for a major piece of the retail wine market, as most consumers purchase wine through local retail shops.

Profiles a variety of small, fast-growing operations that offer produce that is delivered directly from farmers to consumers. Description of Community Supported Agriculture programs (CSAs), in which members pay an up-front fee to receive a box of fresh produce each week; Comments on several Web-based organic delivery services and online grocers who specialize in locally grown produce; Consideration of price and delivery methods.

Focuses on laws enacted in some U.S. states allowing individuals to drink unpasteurized, or raw, milk from their own cows. Number of cow-share programs in the U.S., allowing individuals to purchase a share of a cow and enabling them to drink raw milk; Why milk sold in the U.S. is required to undergo the process of pasteurization; Number of members in the Weston A. Price Foundation, a group that promotes traditional foods such as a pasteurized milk; Growth of the cow-share practice, which caught the state of Wisconsin off guard; Price U.S. dairy farmers are receiving for pasteurized milk, indicating raw milk fetches a much higher price; Number of people found to have campylobacter, resulting in a cow-share program at Clearview Acres farm in Wisconsin being shut down and the continuing battle between the farm and the state.

This section offers news briefs on private properties for sale in the U.S. as of May 1, 2015, including the penthouse owned by Houston Rockets team owner Leslie Alexander in Manhattan, New York, the former home of former U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in New York and the home of actor Patrick Dempsey in Malibu, California.

The article looks at Spanish artists emigrating to the U.S., as of 2013, citing examples including jazz bagpiper Cristina Pato and filmmaker Martin Rosete, noting their numbers have increased due to Spain's poor economic conditions, and discussing collaboration among Spanish expatriates in the U.S.

This article discusses the installation of wood-burning ovens and grills in the homes of U.S. chefs such as Michael Chiarello, owner of the Bottega restaurant in California, Nancy Silverton, founder of La Brea Bakery, and Frank Prisinzano, owner of the Lil' Frankies restaurant in New York City.

The article profiles Korean-American chef Sang Yoon. According to the article, Yoon owns two restaurants called "Father's Office" in California. The article describes Yoon's participation in the 2012 Lucky Rice Festival in New York City. The article offers comments from Yoon concerning his champagne collection, pressure cookers, and his favorite hamburgers.

The article deals with the increasing popularity of Peruvian dishes at restaurants in the U.S. in 2011.

The article canvasses various chefs in the U.S. on how they make their pimiento cheese and it also provides a recipe for the pimiento cheese.

The article deals with the growing number of chefs across the U.S. who are grilling seasonal ingredients such as fruits and vegetables, and outlines several grilling recipes, including Grilled Fresh Fava Beans, Grilled Watermelon Au Poivre and Grilled Strawberries.

A review is offered for several taquerias or taco restaurants in the U.S., including Fuel City Tacos in Dallas, Texas, Norma's Tacos in Pasadena, California and El Rayo Taqueria in Portland, Maine.

This section offers food news briefs from the U.S., including the introduction of the Oroblanco fruit, effort of the "Blackboard Eats" weekly newsletter to offer discounts at restaurants, and launch of the do-it-yourself mixes from Baked Brooklyn.

The article focuses on the adoption of Asian grilling techniques by U.S. restaurants and supermarkets. The Slap Yo's Daddy BBQ team led by its pitmaster Harry Soo marinates chicken in powdered honey from Korea, palm sugar from Indonesia and tamarind powder from the Philippines. Mohan Ismail, chef at Rocksugar Pan Asian Kitchen of Cheesecake Factory Inc., says that 20% of its menu are Southeast Asian grilled dishes. In 2009, Givaudan regional executive chef Thomas Cai created a new flavor made from Asian sauces using ingredients such as Thai lemongrass.

The article offers information on the new methods of wine evaluation, which will be applied to various competitions in the U.S. including the 1st annual Consumer Wine Awards to be held in Lodi, California in March 2010, the 1st Next Gen Wine Competition for Millenial Wine Drinkers in June and the National Women's Wine Competition.