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Embrace the New Happy Hour With the Only USDA Organic THC Gummies
By Cool Material
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Why Buffalo Is New York’s Most Underrated Food Destination

Come for the wings, stay for the award-winning barbecue.

By Brandon Withrow
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The Best-Looking Coffee Gear to Display on Your Counter

Make a tasty cup of coffee, and look great doing it too.

By John A. Paradiso
The Versatile Ingredient Every Host Should Have to Easily Liven Up a Dinner Party
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The Versatile Ingredient Every Host Should Have to Easily Liven Up a Dinner Party

Your next dinner party will be better with a caffeinated kick, and coffee concentrate makes a variety of tasty drinks and desserts easy.

By Nickolaus Hines
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10 Must-Try Wheated Bourbons If You Can’t Try Pappy

You may not ever be able to get your hands on a bottle of Pappy, but these wheated bourbons can scratch that itch.

By Christopher Osburn
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An Ode to Oklahoma Style Barbecue

You’ll find people who insist that there are four epicenters of barbecue in America that constitute the undisputed quadrumvirate of masterfully smoked meat: Texas, Memphis, Kansas City, and North Carolina. Ignore such blowhards: just about every corner of America boasts a time-honored, cherished barbecue tradition. Whether it's Santa Maria tri-tip…

By Johnny Motley
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Las Californias Gin Highlights the True Flavors From California to the Baja Peninsula

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. Few spirits can better showcase the location it’s made than gin. While gin lacks a legal definition that ties it to one region like, say, Scotch whisky or tequila,…

By Nickolaus Hines
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The Best Homemade Korean BBQ Ribs, From a Korean Who Grew Up With Them

Some of my fondest food memories of growing up in the suburbs of Chicago are of my mom's Korean short ribs, or kalbi. She would marinate the beef for a full day, if not longer, and my father would grill them on our small hibachi in the backyard. The caramelized…

By Amos Kwon
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10 Pumpkin Ales That Don’t Suck

Sure, the IPA has its haters (especially bitterly hoppy West Coast IPAs), but there are few beer styles as divisive has the annual fall release of the pumpkin beer. Maybe it’s because many drinkers want a “beer that tastes like beer” and not one that tastes likes a pumpkin pie…

By Christopher Osburn
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