food
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EOD Reading: Netflix Doc Binge, Equality Brew and More
Winter isn’t letting up, so snuggle up with your favorite hot adult beverage and watch one (or all) of these food documentaries on Netflix. [First We Feast] Utah’s Wasatch Beer joins the equality booze game (alongside excellent Cremant du Bourgogne, Égalité) with their Live and Let Live Blonde Ale. [Salt Lake Tribune] Yet another reason…
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New York, New York
Cue bi-annual blog post, it seems. It’s now Feb. 5, 2014, and time doesn’t seem to be letting up. Already, this year has been filled with more work than I can shake a stick at, along with regular ol’ life living. At Wine Enthusiast, we’ve completed our awesome 10 Best Wine Travel Destinations issue and our…
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ICYMI: My “Local Expert” Wanderlists on Afar
Back when I was a young journalism student earnestly turning in assignments for my early classes, I fell in love with two newly released magazines that not only bucked the trend of dying mastheads by having the audacity to print, but also epitomized the kind of journalism I aspired to. The first was Monocle, with…
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On Being a Wine Snob
It happened. Somewhere between helping a customer decide between a mind-blowing Sancerre and a staggering Roero Arneis, they looked at me and uttered the words. “You’re a big ol’ wine snob, aren’t you?” I took pause. Am I?
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Cannoli Turf War: Mike’s Pastry + Modern Pastry
“There is a wrong answer to this question. Which did you like better: Mike’s or Modern?” Completely deadpan, my close friend Emily posed this question while we were at a red light in Cambridge. I had just told her that earlier that day, Ian and I found ourselves in Boston’s North End and sauntered into…
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Sunday Dinner: Sesame-crusted Salmon + Watercress Salad
My belly is protruding more than I am comfortable with, so there has been a small effort to eat a little better. My baser instincts tell me to just sit on my ass and let the food come to me (thanks, Seamless), but my vain brain screams “no, you fat monster! Cook your food!” The…
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Sunday Dinner: Peach and Feta Salad
There’s nothing quite like a fragrant bushel of peaches at the Union Square Greenmarket to start the mouthparts salivating. For me, cravings are often triggered by something as simple as smelling these bright, ripe stone fruits from 15 ft. away, when shopping or even eating was the furthest thing from my mind. Even so, I…
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Hole-y Yumgasm!: New York City Doughnuts You’d be an Idiot to Miss
Look, I’m a skinny kid-turned-fat kid-turned-manageable weight kid. I’ve never been one to watch what I eat, mostly because food is too good and life is too short. And though I’ve become smarter about the provenance of the foods I put in my mouth, I will always think diets are the work of the Devil.…
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Sunday Dinner: Shrimp “Beer Blanc”
I live in Manhattan, where life ain’t cheap. Master of the obvious, right? While I love keeping quality ingredients in my apartment, sometimes I have to *gasp* buy precooked, frozen stuff to eat, because A) I don’t have time and B) it’s cheaper. Lest I be accused of some Sandra Lee “Semi-homemade” BS, let’s come…
Joseph Hernandez 