Washing your grapes with baking soda is easy. All you have to do is put the cluster of grapes you need into a large bowl and sprinkle about a teaspoon of baking soda for every two cups of water.

This dropping of flowers is called coulure. Since each flower is responsible for a grape, the cluster of grapes that eventually forms is loose and missing grapes. If the improperly fertilized flower ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly characterized some elements of the event and its background. Residents and officials of Temecula will greet 2025 on Tuesday with a salute ...