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If you’re dreaming of a white Christmas this year, you might want to head to upstate New York. There’s a 48.4% probability that snowflakes will fall on Dec. 25 in Rochester and a 44.9%...
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Chain restaurant menus constantly evolve, with new items being added and slow-sellers being dropped, limited-time specials being alternated in and out of availability, and seasonally themed offerings...
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Staying at home all the time and not being allowed to go outside except for essential activities such as doing grocery shopping comes with many challenges, and one of them is how to stay away from...
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Pablo Picasso, the rapper Prodigy, and the fourth president of the United States have something in common: They all died while eating. There’s an old Catalan proverb that says “The table kills...
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If you’re a carnivore, there’s nothing more satisfying than a good steak — preferably U.S. prime meat (or maybe authentic Japanese wagyu if price is no object), perfectly cooked, served with...
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Like taste in general, taste in wine is highly subjective, influenced by such factors as the taster’s experience, cultural preferences, body chemistry, even mood. That said, some tasting panels are...
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Food fashions come and go just like fashions of any other kind. Availability of new ingredients, increased familiarity with different cuisines, the imagination of chefs and restaurateurs, and simply...
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Our love for wine in this country grows all the time, and both cocktails and spirits (both well-known brands and regional craft offerings) are gaining an ever-increasing market share. But we are...
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According to a 2020 survey of American grill owners, the Fourth of July is the country’s most popular day for cookouts or backyard barbecues. Burgers, steaks, ribs, and other forms of protein will...
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People sometimes get confused between appetizers and hor d’oeuvres. Which is which? What’s the difference? There’s no officially mandated distinction between the two, but in common parlance, an...
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What was life in America like a century or more ago? We can read about it, of course, in books and articles written at the time as well as in the works of historians of the period. But fortunately,...
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It seems like it was only yesterday that we were shaking beach sand out of our shoes and grilling burgers in the backyard. Now, all of a sudden, there’s a chill in the air and it’s almost...
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Thanksgiving means turkey in America. It’s so much a part of the Norman Rockwell vision of the holiday that millions of Americans, whatever their cultural origins, have come to accept it as an...
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The oldest brewery in the world is really, really old. While earlier evidence of small-scale beer-making has been found in China and parts of the Middle East that are now in Iran and Iraq,...
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One sure sign that Thanksgiving is approaching is the proliferation on fast-food and coffee-shop menus of “pumpkin spice” foods and drinks — a phenomenon sparked by the now-iconic PSL (pumpkin...
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