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Pigs & Pinot: The Most Powerful Father-Son Food Weekend in Sonoma
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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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
Drinks
How a Blind Bourbon Tasting Can Make You Rethink America’s Spirit

On a recent zoom tasting with a group of whiskey experts, I sat with two bourbons in front of me. The taster bottles were unlabeled other than a sticker that read “BOURBON WITH NO BOUNDARIES,” with “sample 1” underneath one bottle’s label and “sample 2” under the other. It was…

By Nickolaus Hines
How a Blind Bourbon Tasting Can Make You Rethink America’s Spirit
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Add to Bar Cart: Redemption Sur Lee Is a Rye Whiskey Unlike Any Other

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material's writers and editors recommend the spirits that they're enjoying most right now. Redemption Whiskey has made a name for itself in the world of rye thanks to an accessible price point and big flavor that's perfect for cocktails. It doesn’t hurt…

By Nickolaus Hines
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7 Gins For People Who Think They Don’t Like Gin

Gin inspires drinkers to fall strongly into one of two camps: those who love the spirit in all its forms, and those who despite it. A lot of that has to do with the piney juniper flavors that define London dry gin and those that style themselves after that most…

By Nickolaus Hines
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7 Bottles to Understand American Single Malt, the Country’s Newest Whiskey Category

It’s not often that a new whiskey style emerges. It takes balancing different ideals between producers to land on the exact definition, along with proving that the style is, in fact, distinct from what’s already available. New styles can mean confusion for both producers and consumers. But it’s also an…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Why Every Whiskey Lover Should Care About Grain-to-Glass Distilleries

Looking at a bottle of wine, the location of the vineyard is often front and center. The same can’t be said for whiskey, despite the fact that it, too, is an agricultural product. But there’s a set of distillers out there who are looking to change that, and the resulting…

By Nickolaus Hines
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