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Pigs & Pinot: The Most Powerful Father-Son Food Weekend in Sonoma
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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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How to Pair Booze With Caviar

Because a gentleman of taste ought to possess at least a passing familiarity with the cold soul of the sea.

By Johnny Motley
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Brooklyn Crafted Ginger Beer

Whether you’re making something traditional like a Moscow Mule or something more uncommon like a Horsefeather, ginger beer is one of the best and one of the most versatile cocktail mixers out there. And when it comes to ginger beer, you won’t find better than the unfiltered Brooklyn Crafted Ginger Beer.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Worst Town in America to Live in if You Love Craft Beer

To give you an idea of how rapidly craft beer has expanded in this country, consider that after Prohibition ended, it took 88 years for America to reach 1,000 breweries again. That's almost a century. After that, it took only another 15 to hit 2,000 breweries, which we did in 2011. Today, less than…

By Mike Newman
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Whiskey from the Guy Who Taught Jack Daniels to Make Whiskey

Jack Daniels wasn't born knowing how to make whiskey.  Someone had to teach him and that someone isn't who you'd expect.  Uncle Nearest, born Nathan Green, was a slave in Tennessee who first taught a young Jack Daniels how to distill.  The two worked together when Green was rented to…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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A Few Days with Altos Tequila, from Arandas to Mexico City

The minute we got the itinerary for our trip to Mexico with the folks from Altos Tequila, we knew it was going to be memorable. Three days, from Arandas (North, in Jalisco) to Mexico City, with a bunch of fun stuff packed in between. We’d be hitting one of Mexico…

By Maxwell Barna
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Get Paid to Drink Whisky and Travel the World

Grant's Whisky is looking for a global brand ambassador, which is a fancy way of saying they're looking for someone who will travel the world convincing people to drink their whisky. Which means the traveler is also going to be drinking a lot of whisky. The application process has three…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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