"Macallan" news and stories

Reflected tomatoes. Photo: gutter/Flickr

• You may love the deep red and delicious flavor of tomatoes, but how much do you know about the fruit?
• This week's Dinner & a Movie: "Blame it on Rio" and food from the Boogalu Cafe.
• Readers weigh in on easy summertime treats.
• If you can bear to add mixers to your whisky, try a Macallan Classic 10.
• Rice Cream Puddings offers customers puddings flavored with everything from coquito to rum raisin.
• Writer Maricel E. Presilla writes about the Cuban memories evoked by sweet mangoes.
• California's Brassfield winery traded rolling cattle fields for vineyards and grapes.
• Northwest Miami-Dade is home to restaurants like Olivos, Thai Cafe and Taberna de Ignacio, while Hollywood boasts Exotic Bites, Cafe Italia and Orale Mexican.
• La Cofradia adds "Ceviche Bar" to its name and revels in raw fish.
  
• L'Express Sandwicherie in Coral Gables is run by a ... kickboxing chef?
  
• Recipe: Barbecued Pork and Beans

A $38,000 bottle of Scotch whiskey, The Macallan Fine and Rare Collection, 1926, made the top of Forbes Magazine's list of the most expensive whiskies in the world. Bottles of the stuff are sold out, but apparently you can still get a $3,000 dram in some restaurants and bars. Coming in second, at a perfectly respectable $10,000 a bottle, is a 1939 Macallan. Forbes' resident boozehound Nick Passmore tries to put some of these outrageously priced bottles in context by describing the current movement towards not only collecting, but actually drinking and appreciating ultra-premium spirits. Unfortunately, like other Forbes lists, you have to use a painfully clunky separate browser window to view information on each bottle.