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Wed. 14 Oct '09
Cooking
A DIY guide to your favorite candies, sweets and confections. Had our early experiences not been marred by giant, tooth-shattering popcorn balls, we would have begun... more
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Mon. 16 Feb '09
Cooking
Nonstick cookware that's safer for you--and the planet. If you've been cooking your crepes in a nonstick coated pan, you might be risking more than high cholesterol; many... more
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Mon. 16 Nov '09
People
Red Truck Bakery is worth a detour. For years, Brian Noyes dealt in fonts and pixels as the art director of high-end glossies like House and Garden and Smithsonian... more
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Thu. 12 Nov '09
Drinks
The nation's best coffee roasters are a click away. Some of us are lucky enough to live near one of the nation's top micro coffee roasters, yet want to sample cult beans... more
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Fri. 06 Nov '09
Drinks
Leopold Bros. restores the cranberry's cocktail cred . When it comes to cocktails, cranberries have had a tough go of it. Last decade's Cosmopolitan craze has left most... more
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Mon. 02 Nov '09
Cooking
The Chicken Eglu transforms backyard into barnyard. Eating a breakfast of just-laid eggs or toast with honey recently pilfered from your own beehive is argument enough... more
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Wed. 28 Oct '09
Cooking
Make your own chocolate at home. Let's be honest: Until you own a conch and make friends with some Brazilian farmers, you won't be the next Jacques Torres or Michel... more
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Tue. 27 Oct '09
People
La Farm Bakery turns ten. When you break bread with Lionel Vatinet, you don't just grab a slice and eat it. You begin by squeezing the loaf to feel its crisp (but pliant)... more
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Wed. 07 Oct '09
People
Handmade salt from California's freshest waters. Not all love stories involve salt. And not all salt stories involve love. But the tale of bush pilot Robert La Mar and... more
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Mon. 05 Oct '09
Cooking
Instant biscuits by mail . Breakfast is a sad victim of circumstance: Because it occupies that unforgiving morning time slot, we end up relegating many of our favorite... more
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Fri. 02 Oct '09
People
New traceable teas from a master blender. After creating (and selling) two of the world's biggest tea brands--Stash Tea Co. and Tazo--Steven Smith is going small. With... more
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Wed. 30 Sep '09
Cooking
A cookbook legend tackles dinners for one. It's fun to cook for a crowd. But when Americans eat at home alone, many of us--the folks at Tasting Table included--tend to... more
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Fri. 25 Sep '09
Cooking
Tomato blight leave you shorthanded? Stock up at Happy Girl Kitchen.. As fungus attacks tomato plants in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, the West Coast remains blissfully... more
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Wed. 16 Sep '09
Wine
What to pour during the shoulder season. September can be hot and muggy or cool and dry--often in the same day. In terms of wine, such vacillating weather calls for... more
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Wed. 09 Sep '09
Drinks
Fever-Tree's new ginger beer adds a wallop of flavor to drinks. Now that bucks, mules and the ever-popular Dark and Stormy have become cocktail menu fixtures, the demand... more
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Mon. 31 Aug '09
Dining
Five ways to weather the shoulder season. Summer is drawing to a close and though the lingering heat makes it hard to believe, it'll be sweater weather any minute. Here... more
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Wed. 19 Aug '09
Cooking
A new book finds the world's holiest food and drink. Bourbon country isn't exactly the Holy Land (unless you worship whiskey), but there, the Abbey of Gethsemani produces... more
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Thu. 13 Aug '09
Cooking
The definitive guide to Asia's favorite finger food . In her first book, Into the Vietnamese Kitchen, author Andrea Nguyen demystified authentic Vietnamese cuisine. With... more
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Wed. 12 Aug '09
Cooking
This new cookware has all your problems solved. The perfect sear is hard to come by. Nothing beats a cast-iron pan to get the job done, but ours (we're embarrassed to... more
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Mon. 10 Aug '09
Cooking
Build a bespoke nutrition bar online . Energy bars have never been popular with food lovers: Those of us who freak over the perfect tomato are not the target audience for... more
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Fri. 07 Aug '09
Cooking
These single-purpose honeys offer different shades of sweet. When it comes to flavor, nuance is everything. We know that you wouldn't put the same oil, salt---or even... more
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Wed. 15 Jul '09
Cooking
Fresh oysters, from the flats to your door . Island Creek Oysters, a boutique oyster farm on Massachusetts's Duxbury Bay, has been supplying high-end restaurants like Per... more
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Tue. 14 Jul '09
Cooking
Kopali Organics' feel-good snacks. If our national appetite was a Venn diagram, with overlapping circles for our growing hunger for exotic flavors, our desire for all... more
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Fri. 10 Jul '09
People
Zingerman's deli does Bacon 101. Everybody knows bacon, but not everyone knows great bacon. Ari Weinzweig, proprietor of Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, Michigan, didn't even... more
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Tue. 07 Jul '09
Cooking
Flavored sugars offer a new way to finish a dish. With "finishing salts" all the rage in restaurants and gourmet shops, we knew its sugar-based equivalent wouldn't be far... more
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Tue. 30 Jun '09
Cooking
A chef's favorite gadget gets a makeover . Normally, where there's smoke, there's fire. But that's not the case with the Smoking Gun, a handheld gadget chefs and... more
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Wed. 10 Jun '09
Cooking
Grilling gifts for Father's Day. Butcher's Bible The butcher-authors of the new Lobel's Meat Bible will teach Dad how to tell rump roast from a top round, cook up true... more
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Wed. 06 May '09
Drinks
In-season coffee from Intelligentsia . You wouldn't break out a can of Niblets in peak sweet corn season, but that's basically what you're doing whenever you open a bag... more
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Fri. 01 May '09
Cooking
Vervacious turns culinary wanderlust into exotic products . Vervacious, an online food shop known for its meticulously sourced truffles, also sells infused vinegars and... more
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Mon. 06 Apr '09
Cooking
Say "Buona Pasqua" with a legendary Italian Easter cake. We've always envied the trappings of a traditional Italian Easter: While we gnaw on chocolate bunnies and sweaty... more
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Tue. 24 Mar '09
Drinks
Crop to Cup goes beyond fair trade. Maybe you've bucked the supermarket for the farmers' market, cultivated your own plot of herbs and hopped aboard the fair-trade... more
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Mon. 23 Mar '09
Cooking
America's first artisanal soy sauce. There are plenty of American-brewed soy sauces out there: Kikkoman bottles some 25 million gallons annually on Wisconsin's Lake... more
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Wed. 18 Mar '09
Cooking
A New Orleans bookshop sells the secret to perfect gumbo. Forget roux and "the holy trinity"; when it comes to perfect New Orleans-style gumbo, the secret is in the... more
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Fri. 13 Mar '09
Cooking
Duncan grapefruit is the sweetest thing. March is a miserable month for fresh fruit, but there is one burst of sunshine: Florida grapefruit. And one of the sweetest we've... more
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Wed. 18 Nov '09
Wine
American wines that won't break your Thanksgiving budget. Thanks to the efforts of forward-thinking (and budget-conscious) winemakers on the West Coast, right now you can... more
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Thu. 05 Nov '09
Cooking
Try fresh olio nuovo--while you can. You don't really know olive oil until you've tasted olio nuovo. Literally "new oil," this first-of-the-season pressing is the true... more
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Tue. 03 Nov '09
Wine
Discover Washington State's powerhouse Syrah. Located near the border of Oregon, Walla Walla, Washington, is a surprising wine destination to some. But one grape, Syrah,... more
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Tue. 03 Nov '09
Cooking
Venerated West Coast kimchi comes east. Lauryn Chun thinks her mother makes the best kimchi in the world. She's not the only one: Chun's mother, Young Ja, is the... more
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Wed. 28 Oct '09
People
Inside the Momofuku book, plus a bonus recipe. Given the hype, David Chang and Peter Meehan's Momofuku is slimmer than you'd expect it to be. It's not one of those... more
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Wed. 21 Oct '09
Drinks
Beers that get better with age. Put a bottle of Heineken in your cellar and months later all you'll have is stale beer. But squirrel away a bottle-conditioned beer and... more
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Tue. 20 Oct '09
People
Send a better get-well basket . At this point in the season, we all know someone who's down with a cold or the flu, and we want to help him or her feel better--even if... more
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Fri. 16 Oct '09
People
Try these classic delis--before they disappear . For the past two years, Canadian journalist David Sax has been blogging about his adventures with Jewish deli meats. Now,... more
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Thu. 08 Oct '09
Cooking
The star chef chronicles a new era in NOLA dining. Chef John Besh's new (and hefty) cookbook, My New Orleans, isn't what you'd call linear: Its 16 chapters jump from... more
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Mon. 28 Sep '09
Wine
There's life beyond stainless steel for Sauvignon Blanc. Gooseberries and cat pee have their place, but sometimes these typical characteristics of stainless steel-tanked... more
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Tue. 22 Sep '09
Drinks
When it comes to brewing great beer, size doesn't matter. While beer conglomerates like Anheuser-Busch InBev grow bigger every day, microbreweries are shrinking. This... more
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Mon. 21 Sep '09
Cooking
Premium artisanal butter comes Stateside. America's relationship with butter has been nothing if not complicated. Coronary-inducing overuse in the 1950s and '60s gave way... more
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Fri. 28 Aug '09
Drinks
A Swedish potato vodka is converting the skeptics. Vodka is the Coldplay of the spirits world: Cocktail experts like to decry it as overhyped, overplayed and... more
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Wed. 26 Aug '09
Cooking
America's latest hotbed of cheese is (surprise) in Texas. Between the scorching heat and desertlike conditions that blanket much of the Southwest, Texas seems like it... more
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Fri. 21 Aug '09
Drinks
Japan's power citrus is a welcome cocktail alternative. Good bartenders know that the perfect cocktail is all about balance: Nothing makes a drink like the right... more
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Tue. 18 Aug '09
Wine
Ontario's most overlooked grape is a tremendous value. Given Ontario's proximity to the United States, it's surprising just how little of the region's wine we see... more
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Mon. 17 Aug '09
People
Timothy Childs stops at nothing for better chocolate. Meet Timothy Childs, equal parts candy man and mad scientist. His four-year-old company, TCHO, was among the... more
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Fri. 14 Aug '09
People
A top sommelier gets his hands grapey. Daniel Johnnes's resume is as impressive as it is wine-stained: As the wine director for Daniel Boulud's restaurants, an importer... more
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Fri. 14 Aug '09
Cooking
This new club combines our favorite things: cookbooks and wine. When it comes to book clubs, only one woman's picks have ever mattered. Others tried to capture readers'... more
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Fri. 07 Aug '09
Cooking
The people have spoken--and Rick's Picks has answered. Rick Field of Rick's Picks has a simple way of dreaming up his innovative, wildly addictive pickles: He asks... more
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Mon. 03 Aug '09
Cooking
TT's guide to (illegal) urban beekeeping. First there was the black market for raw milk and underaged cheese, followed by the underground sassafras trade. Now, rebellious... more
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Mon. 03 Aug '09
Cooking
Must-have gifts for Julia junkies . Our healthy obsession with Julia Child has us counting down the minutes for this Friday's (Aug. 7) release of Julie & Julia (watch... more
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Thu. 30 Jul '09
Drinks
Bigger is better for these supercharged, high-proof spirits . When spirits top 80 proof (40 percent ABV), they're often throat burners about as tasty as paint thinner.... more
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Tue. 28 Jul '09
People
A vintage bar-book collector reprints the classics. In this classic-cocktail renaissance, it's only fair that we honor those early bartenders who paved the way for Corpse... more
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Fri. 24 Jul '09
Dining
Three new reads for your beach tote. There's no better time to put a dent in your reading list than during the summer, but die-hard food lovers know that hauling a coffee... more
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Thu. 23 Jul '09
Wine
These bold white wines drink like reds. We all have friends who claim they don't like white wine. Even in the dead of winter, this is a bad bias to have--it's like... more
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Mon. 20 Jul '09
Drinks
Soda cultists seek out "hecho en Mexico". Since 1985, when the Coca-Cola Company swapped out cane sugar for high-fructose corn syrup in its secret recipe, so-called... more
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Fri. 17 Jul '09
Wine
Ethical wine hits America. You fill your cloth shopping bag with local produce, organic milk and single-origin coffee. Now, conscientious consumer, make some room for... more
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Mon. 13 Jul '09
Drinks
Try Scandinavia's new wave of microbrews. Here's a Viking invasion to celebrate. Historically, Scandinavian beers have largely been weak lagers that are about as... more
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Wed. 08 Jul '09
Drinks
Craft beer and whiskey form a spirited symbiosis. All whiskey begins life as beer--or at least a beerlike liquid made from malted grain and water, which is then distilled... more
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Fri. 19 Jun '09
Cooking
The Heartland's best ice cream comes to Brooklyn. You're going to want to meet this new Midwest transplant: Jeni Britton Bauer, whose luscious small-batch ice creams have... more
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Tue. 26 May '09
Wine
Spain's Txacoli wines are what to tap for summer . Move over Albariño: Spain's most exciting wine right now may be Txacoli, the light, crisp whites made in the... more
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Mon. 18 May '09
Cooking
Three Tarts sells one-bite sweets at bite-size prices. When wallets start to thin, the sweetest things in life are the first to go. Fortunately, one Chelsea shop is... more
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Fri. 15 May '09
Wine
A classic dessert grape goes dry. Chances are if you've had a wine made from the Furmint grape, it's been sweet. For centuries, Furmint (FOOR-mint) has played a starring... more
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Wed. 13 May '09
Drinks
Skip the extreme beers for equally flavorful, less-potent brews. The high-alcohol beers sweeping the craft-brewing scene are great, but you're limited to one or two... more
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Wed. 13 May '09
Dining
FIKA spreads the Scandinavian lifestyle . Swedes lead a charmed life, from their unified design aesthetic down to their daily fika--an extended, leisurely coffee... more
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Tue. 12 May '09
Cooking
An online depot for the country's best small-batch foods. Whenever we discover a great new jam or cheese at the local farmers' market, we wonder how many other... more
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Tue. 05 May '09
Cooking
Master meat at the grill with Adam Perry Lang. Anyone who thought barbecue books couldn't get any meatier hasn't met Adam Perry Lang. The chef-owner of Daisy May's BBQ in... more
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Wed. 29 Apr '09
Wine
Put Portuguese reds on your wine radar . Portugal is finally getting its well-deserved time in the wine limelight. While its port and Madeira have capped our meals for... more
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Tue. 21 Apr '09
Cooking
Cook and consume consciously with treats from these eco purveyors. We'll use any excuse to turn a holiday into a food-focused event, especially when it aligns with our... more
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Mon. 20 Apr '09
Drinks
Bye-bye, backwoods: Moonshine has gone legit. Moonshine is leaving the holler for the cocktail bar. Once a backcountry black market, the illicit elixir no longer warrants... more
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Fri. 10 Apr '09
Cooking
If you're claiming locavore status, make sure your flour fits the bill. We're quick to congratulate ourselves for adopting a locavore lifestyle. We buy in-season produce... more
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Fri. 10 Apr '09
Cooking
Local chefs are obsessed with the Castelvetrano. Olives, like cilantro and sweetbreads, are one of those polarizing foods: Some people can't get enough; others avoid them... more
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Wed. 01 Apr '09
Cooking
Four fantastic new options from the gristmill. Thanks to Joe Pesci's classic courtroom rant in My Cousin Vinnie, almost everybody knows what grits are. This creamy... more
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Tue. 31 Mar '09
Wine
Usher in spring with Chile's best Sauvignon Blancs . With the trees budding and air warming up for spring, we're finally ready to put away those big winter reds and bring... more
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Thu. 26 Mar '09
Cooking
Guilt-free lamb from Lava Lake Ranch . We'll always think fondly of our childhood spent hunting buffalo and surviving cholera on the Oregon Trail (the computer version,... more
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Wed. 25 Mar '09
Dining
It was inevitable. Cupcake, meet bacon.. Bacon's sweet-smoky essence has found its way into every corner of our lives, including our medicine cabinets, pockets, closets... more
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Thu. 12 Mar '09
Drinks
A nonalcoholic alternative we can get behind. Finally, there's a nonalcoholic beverage that actually appeals to wine lovers. If you find yourself tee totaling (either for... more
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Wed. 04 Mar '09
Cooking
CleanFish knows where your salmon's been. You know where your organic free-range chicken and gem lettuce come from, but what about your shrimp and salmon? Thanks to San... more
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Fri. 27 Feb '09
Cooking
Sandwich scene-stealers from two of Seattle's favorite chefs. Seattleites aren't afraid of a little idiosyncrasy, and now some local chefs are bottling that quirkiness,... more
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Wed. 25 Feb '09
Wine
Top Napa wineries offer little-brother labels at a deep discount . If you're sporting more DKNY than Donna Karan lately, try the same strategy with your wines by buying... more
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Wed. 08 Jul '09
Wine
An all-occasion sampler from Tasting Table and Crush . From picnics to barbecues to a quiet session with a dozen oysters, there's not one perfect bottle of wine for... more
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Fri. 06 Mar '09
Drinks
Brewers are rolling out the barrels for high-end beer . In their constant quest for better-tasting beer, more and more brewers are stealing a page from the spirits... more
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