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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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This American Single Malt From a Luxury California Whiskey Brand Is the Perfect Special Occassion Bottle

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. Some names in whiskey are famous because they’re plastered right on the bottle—Evan Williams, Jack Daniel’s, Elijah Craig, and so on. Other names are famous in a more subtle…

By Nickolaus Hines
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If You Like Tequila and Mezcal, Then It’s Time You Get To Know Sotol

Tequila is the second-best selling spirit category in the United States, after vodka. Mezcal is many (many) multiples less than that, but you might not guess as much by how hyped and cherished mezcal is by bartenders, liquor store owners, and the press (and yes, I include myself in that…

By Nickolaus Hines
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The 9 Hops That Every IPA Lover Should Know

You don’t have to be a scientist or a horticulturalist or a brewer to appreciate beer. You just have to have a lively palate and a sense of adventure. You don’t need an advanced degree to grasp the role hops play in shaping beer, either, but beer education is fun,…

By Andy Crump
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Stuck In a Beer Rut? Try These Offbeat Beer Styles Instead of Your Go-to

The Cicerone Beer Style Profiles flipbook and its expansion pack, both of which I used to help me put this guide together, list 60 different beer styles between the two of them and those 60 are by no means exhaustive. By contrast, almost every brewery I’ve visited in the past…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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This Pizza Oven Will Have You Making Restaurant-Quality Pies In No Time

This is Worth The Hype, where our writers and editors put popular products to the test to see if they are, in fact, worth the hype. A few years ago, during my food blogging days, I was invited to a cheese festival in Burlington, Vermont (yes, they exist, and yes,…

By Brett Braley
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