Infants and toddlers should not be given soda, chocolate milk or other sweetened drinks, according to strict new guidelines.

There are plenty of cocktails for you and your mates to try when visiting the 492 bar on King Street in Charleston, S.C , but few will impress as much as the Disco Sour,  a cocktail that changes color from pale yellow to deep violet while you drink it.

Fences are rising. There is talk of a brutal and destructive insurgency, invasions and a slaughter that could include hundreds of thousands in the years ahead.

Has clean air become such a luxury in China that restaurants can charge patrons for it?

From the rudimentary masculine places of old, contemporary steakhouses have mutated into higher forms of restaurant life.

Ron Arad, the Israeli-born, London-based designer, doesn’t appreciate a fussy table setting and is anything but a wine snob.

At the onset of the new season of “Scandal,” ABC’s prime-time soap-drama, Olivia Pope, the lead character, has fled Washington, D.C., and world intrigue for exile on a tropical island with Jake Ballard, her sometime lover. The only evidence of the rest of the world is a boat that shows up with an important delivery.

When the apple market collapsed about 15 years ago in the region around Lake Chelan in central Washington State, a handful of farmers decided to make the transition from apples to grapes. Though the apple market has recovered, there’s been no turning back for these erstwhile orchardists. Along the shores of Lake Chelan, wineries have been popping up as quickly as bubbles in a newly uncorked bottle of Champagne.

The Outer Coastal Plain might be the perfect place to make fine wine in America. The region, which has nearly the same sandy soil composition as Bordeaux, experiences a warm growing season; spring frosts are rare; and the breezes from the Atlantic Ocean and a local bay are ideal for winemaking. The O.C.P. has only one real challenge: it’s in southern New Jersey, a state associated with many things — Springsteen, Snooki, industrial pollution, the mob — but not great wine. Much of what is bottled there, in fact, isn’t even grape-based.

A study has raised questions as to whether the use of pesticides in the production of wine could be to blame for a drop in French men’s sperm count.