If you add a couple of teaspoons of powder to a liquid and shake, you wind up with grit in the bottom of the pitcher or the bottle you’re using. It doesn’t matter if you’re mixing Kool-Aid or energy ...

Wine lovers know a bevy of tricks they claim can improve the life of a ho-hum bottle or keep a bottle of bubbly from going flat. Here, we take a look at a few that may - and may not - work.

While the average oenophile decants a bottle of red wine using a glass carafe, Nathan Myhrvold decants using a blender. The very idea of pouring an expensive bottle of vino into a hostile machine ...

Don't blame me. Blame Nathan Myhrvold. Last year, the chef and former Microsoft chief technology officer released "Modernist Cuisine at Home," (The Cooking Lab; $140; 456 pages) a scientific cooking ...