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Published: June 19, 2021 by Colman Andrews
As the weather warms, vaccinations proliferate, and pandemic-era restrictions on dining, gathering, and travel are canceled or greatly curtailed, one […]
Published: June 18, 2021 by Colman Andrews
During Donald Trump’s presidency, much was written about his eating habits — his love for well-done steak, Egg McMuffins, and […]
Published: June 14, 2021 by Colman Andrews
For as long as there have been cameras, there have been photos of people doing interesting or silly or dangerous […]
Published: June 12, 2021 by Colman Andrews
Country music is famous as a medium for sharing stories. Perhaps it’s for this reason that the genre itself has […]
Published: June 8, 2021 by Colman Andrews
Golf is hot. According to the National Golf Foundation, the number of players in the U.S. rose to 24.8 million […]
Our love for wine in this country grows all the time, and both cocktails and spirits (both well-known brands and […]
Published: June 6, 2021 by Colman Andrews
Memorial Day weekend is almost here. That means it’s almost grilling season — a time to fire up the backyard […]
The restaurant business is a tough one, and the COVID-19 pandemic has all but destroyed it. Even before closures became […]
Published: June 4, 2021 by Colman Andrews
These days, there are people making artisanal tortillas in Ireland, small-batch soy sauce in Kentucky, and Spanish-style sausage in southwestern […]
Published: June 2, 2021 by Colman Andrews
Whether they’re fairy-tale fantasies with slender towers and crenellated walls, impregnable-looking fortresses designed for warfare, or spooky ruins evoking vanished […]
Published: May 31, 2021 by Colman Andrews
Which decade in the history of filmmaking — a history dating back more than a century — produced the most […]
Published: May 30, 2021 by Colman Andrews
Professional chefs and accomplished home cooks have learned through experience — and familiarity with their grills or ovens — how […]
Summer means grilling — lighting the hardwood charcoal or briquets or igniting the propane to impart that inimitable outdoor culinary […]
Published: May 28, 2021 by Colman Andrews
Published: May 27, 2021 by Colman Andrews
American supermarkets are a wonderment — treasure houses of produce, canned goods, meats and poultry, seafood, dairy products, baked goods, […]
Published: May 26, 2021 by Colman Andrews
One of the (many) hot-button issues raised by Brexit, was the controversy over chicken washed in chlorine. Chlorine? Isn’t that […]
Published: May 25, 2021 by Colman Andrews
Scholars tell us that the word “brunch” was originally a slang term used at England’s Oxford University, first recorded in […]
Published: May 23, 2021 by Colman Andrews
Bars mean drinking (unless the words “tapas” or “sushi” are appended), but the majority of such establishments also serve food. […]
Published: May 20, 2021 by Colman Andrews
We love chicken in America. According to the National Chicken Council, our per capita consumption of the bird in various […]
Published: May 19, 2021 by Colman Andrews
The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating to the restaurant business. Well over 100,000 establishments of various kinds — from fast-food […]
Published: May 16, 2021 by Colman Andrews
Somebody once proposed that any town in America with a population of more than about 10,000 had at least one […]
Published: May 13, 2021 by Colman Andrews
Indie movies sometimes hit it big. The offbeat 1999 horror flick “The Blair Witch Project,” which cost less than $500,000 […]
It’s hard to tell how America’s most successful restaurant chains will emerge from our year-plus of pandemic restrictions and changed […]
Published: May 11, 2021 by Colman Andrews
“If they do kill me,” Abraham Lincoln once said, “I shall never die another death.” They did kill him, of […]