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The Gentlemen’s Trip: A Field Guide
By Lanny Fuller
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Pigs & Pinot: The Most Powerful Father-Son Food Weekend in Sonoma

Charlie Palmer's 19th annual Pig & Pinot event returns, with a couple twists this year.

By Cool Material
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The No-Shame Adult Guide to Instant Noodles

The best instant noodles for upgrading your pantry without abandoning nostalgia.

By Brett Braley
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The Coolest Food Gifts for 2025

Chomp, chomp.

By Cool Material
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The White Whiskey Bucket List: 12 Unaged Whiskeys You Need to Try At Least Once

White whiskey is the oldest kind of whiskey, but you wouldn’t know it from how new it feels to the whiskey industry. It’s only just starting to get wide releases from distilleries and the spread is exactly as you’d expect it to be. Craft distillers putting out new expressions of…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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This Coffee Maker Runs on Power Tool Batteries

A hard day's work starts with a strong cup of coffee. If you want a coffee maker that's at home with the tools required for that hard day, look no further than the new Makita CM501DZ. The rugged coffee maker runs on the lithium ion packs that your power tools…

By Mike Newman
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We Put Whiskey in a Keurig to Make Irish Coffee On Demand

A couple of months ago, we had the idea to fill our Keurig with Guinness Extra so it could spit out coffee stout. It was, perhaps, our worst idea of all time. (You can read about it here.) Recently, we thought to ourselves: How can we top that? The answer: Fill…

By Mike Newman
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This St. Patrick’s Day, Drink Poitín, the Irish Moonshine

Before you can be famous for great whiskey, you have to invent whatever comes before it. For the Irish, that was poitín (puu-tcheen). It means “little pot” in Gaelic, named for what early Irish distillers used to make the spirit. It’s been the subject of poetry, music, stories, fairy tales,…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The Top 50 Craft Breweries by Sales Volume

As big breweries gobble up one-time craft breweries, the "craft" landscape continues to change. Who are the biggest craft—or "independent"—players? Well, every year the Brewers Association parses through the data to find the breweries with the most impressive sales numbers who also meet the criteria for the list, meaning they…

By Mike Newman
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