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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
Beer and Pretzel Marshmallows

If you’re lucky enough you’ll one day stumble across a rerun of the Iron Chef episode where the secret ingredient for the competition is beer.  Be prepared to eat your television.  You could put beer in brussel sprouts and we’d eat them, it’s just that delicious.  So when the folks at…

By Mike Newman
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Food
Bacon Toothpaste

Don’t you hate it when you’ve had a platter of bacon and as much as you want to let the taste linger in your mouth for days on end proper “hygiene” says you need to brush your teeth?  We’d be happier keeping that bacon-y taste and letting our teeth just fall out,…

By Mike Newman
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Food
Sir Francis Bacon Shoppe

We may have slept our way through Philosophy and History class but we’re pretty sure The Baconian Method has something to do with injecting delicious bacon flavor into already tasty foods then eating said food with a nice imperial stout.  Obviously.  Okay, perhaps this wasn’t Sir Francis Bacon’s revolutionary theory…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
The Sriracha Cookbook

The popularity of sriracha has been building slowly over the last year and in 2011 it may just hit bacon level proportions.  In fact, the only thing that’s been holding the spicy sauce back is that it’s just that – spicy.  Assuming you can handle the moderate level of heat, it’s…

By Mike Newman
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Food
The Hopworks Beer Bike

What do you need to throw the most ridiculous outdoor party ever? Outside of the women, beer, pizza, and music are a good place to start. But how about throwing in a full bar that happens to be mounted to one of the most extreme cargo bikes ever created? It…

By Cooper Fleishman
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