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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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Netflix Is Selling Its Own Weed

Netflix is improving your next Netflix and chill session—and it has nothing to do with a great new show. In an effort to promote Disjointed, a new Netflix property about a woman and her son running a dispensary, Netflix released a small collection of weed to pair with your favorite shows.…

By Mike Newman
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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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