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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
Food
FUNSTON Fire-Pit/Ice-Chest

Whether it be 4th of July or just a random BBQ, in the summer - in the words of the prophet Andrew W.K. - when it's time to party we will party hard.  Summertime bashes have a tendency to last from early afternoon until TBD, and that TBD usually means a…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
The Cook And The Butcher

One thing we'd love to see return from the ashes is the corner butcher shop (oh, and also Bonkers candy, but that is a separate topic).  Sure, some still exist but they have slowly been pushed out by cheap prepackaged supermarket red dot specials.  With The Cook And The Butcher…

By Mike Newman
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Food
Chocolate Chilli Mustard

There is a strange law when it comes to food that even when you really like certain foods separately when combined together the sum is not always greater than the parts.  In fact, sometimes it is far, far less (peanut butter ketchup cheese sandwiches for example).  Yet, there are other times…

By Mike Newman
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Food
The Cthulhu Roaster

Burnt wieners are never a good thing regardless of how you interpret it.  If you're cooking up a few dogs on the grill you can run into this problem for a whole slew of reasons - you got wrapped up in an ultra-competitive wiffle ball game, your buddies were cracking some…

By Mike Newman
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Articles
The Web’s Greatest Burger Recipes

There's a 99% chance you'll be around a grill at some point this Memorial Day Weekend. Included in that 1% of people who aren't are those too hungover to go outside and face the sun, those who somehow got caught at the office and the .0001% of the population that…

By Mike Newman
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