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Catalan Cocktail Culture – Barcelona’s 41°by the Adria Brothers
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Paris Food Truck Rendez-Vous
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The Endangered Peasant Meal
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The Chiveto – A Peerless Sandwich
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Striking French Gastronomy
Many revolutions start in the belly. Empty stomachs and bare cupboards feed rhetoric, ideals and slogans. Sparked by food prices too high or food stocks too low revolution hungry citizens rally to the...
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Communist Ales
Beer has long lifted the burdens of the working class, and so it is fitting that Karl Marx who toiled to relieve the working class’ burdens was oft to lift an ale himself . However, back in my...
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Tyranny of Craft Beer
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Creative? – An Audience With Ferran Adrià
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Running On Wine
All marathons are long, but wineglass in hand one is longer than all others. Each September the legendary Medoc region of Bordeaux hosts the Marathon du Medoc; self-declared Le Marathon Le Plus Long...
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Current State of Parisian Food Writing
It is a great time to not only be an eater but an eater who readers about eating. All around the world hungry scribes are reinventing food writing including fellow pioneers here on Foodists. But what...
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Revolver Ends Coffee Debate
The $9.50 I handed over for a morning coffee doomed this report from the beginning. The plan had been a one-day celebratory survey of what unique values Vancouver brings to the world’s gastronomic...
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The Curious Concept of Farmers Markets
The wide halls and thoroughfares of London’s King Cross Station echo softly with distant steps and scuffs early on a Saturday morning. Slumbering travellers shuffle along as if propelled by wheeled...
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Between Meals: Cycling the Italian Dolomites
Vacant eyes obsessively track the road’s painted solid white line. Deep breaths repetitively inhale the increasingly sparse oxygen. Pedals turnover rhythmically up the unceasing ten degree incline....
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Catalan Cocktail Culture – Barcelona’s 41°by the Adria Brothers
BARCELONA – Stepping onto a plush red carpet initiates the superlative cocktail bar experience at 41°. However, immediately stopped at the luscious deep maroon velvet rope eagerness erodes while...
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Paris Food Truck Rendez-Vous
After decades of quietly smoking and grilling away, food trucks have lately earned a lot of attention and column inches. In an era where multiple arugula options and gourmet ketchup are stocked in...
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The Endangered Peasant Meal
In today’s internationalized and air freighted culinary world can a cuisine go extinct? A question raised by dinner at a small rural café in a tiny drive through town in an unremarkable region of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Chiveto – A Peerless Sandwich
I’ve had a few great and memorable sandwiches in life, as well many purely functional ones and far too many feeble ones imprisoned tightly together aboard industrial plastic serving trays. However, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Striking French Gastronomy
Many revolutions start in the belly. Empty stomachs and bare cupboards feed rhetoric, ideals and slogans. Sparked by food prices too high or food stocks too low revolution hungry citizens rally to the...
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Communist Ales
Beer has long lifted the burdens of the working class, and so it is fitting that Karl Marx who toiled to relieve the working class’ burdens was oft to lift an ale himself . However, back in my...
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Tyranny of Craft Beer
London, UK – How did craft beer come to rule our taps? Who allowed the pleasure of a simple pint to drown under barrels of manhandled complexity? This insincere and insidious “movement” of macho...
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