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The Best-Looking Coffee Gear to Display on Your Counter
By John A. Paradiso
The Versatile Ingredient Every Host Should Have to Easily Liven Up a Dinner Party
Food
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
KOW Steaks Made Me Ditch Mediocre Supermarket Meat
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KOW Steaks Made Me Ditch Mediocre Supermarket Meat

KOW Steaks might just be the best beef we've every enjoyed.

By John A. Paradiso
The Canned Coffee That Gets Me Through Each Afternoon
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The Canned Coffee That Gets Me Through Each Afternoon

In my house, there are two distinct coffee moments each day: the 7 a.m. brew and the 3 p.m. treat. The former is a slow, deliberate, and tactile experience with tools I love getting my hands on—grinding beans in a Fellow Ode Brew and filling up a Moccamaster. I stand…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Get To Know Armagnac, the Oldest French Spirit

There are a lot of types of spirits out there, and no one can be expected to have an encyclopedic knowledge of all of them. While you might have a pretty good grasp on the ins and outs of whisk(e)y, tequila, vodka, rum, and gin, there are numerous others you…

By Christopher Osburn
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LALO Tequila: An Everyday Blanco Descended From Tequila Royalty

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. Don Julio is an instantly recognizable name in the world of tequila. From the blanco to Don Julio 1942’s iconic bottle, the brand is, for many, a standard bearer…

By Nickolaus Hines
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10 Beer Experts Tell Us The IPAs They Always Drink

If you were on a desert island with no immediate hope of rescue and you could only have a few supplies, what would you hope that you had with you? Probably some type of first aid kit, matches, blankets, maybe some food and water and means to make a shelter,…

By Christopher Osburn
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Fashion
STEAL: Save Big During Huckberry’s Annual Summer Sale

While we will always love a huge big box store annual closeout sale, there's something to be said for getting best-in-class merchandise--from brands you might have never heard of before--at a discount during said sales that might not be from big box retailers. That's where Huckberry comes in to save…

By Ben Dahl
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One of the Most Beloved Texas Breweries Now Makes Vodka, Moonshine, and Gin

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. It never made sense to me that more breweries don't have small distilling operations attached to them. Roughly speaking, you have to make beer to make whiskey--whiskey wash is…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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