Food & Wine

News for Foodies Long Island Larder: Mind Your Peaches Probably nobody but crossword addicts know that "drupe" means any stone fruit, such as peaches, plums, apricots, and possibly avocados, although it's never been decided whether the avocado is properly a fruit or a vegetable. Drupe is as good a way out of this controversy as any. Most of them cohabit very successfully with ham, chicken, or game meats. Uncorked I am not sure exactly what night they invented champagne but it seems to have been in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. By 1776, as America was struggling to establish its independence, Louis Roederer was beginning to produce champagne in a form more or less as we still know it. Thankfully, both succeeded.