Traditional Mexican cuisine at Queretaro’s Restaurante Fin de Siglo
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Traditional Mexican cuisine at Queretaro’s Restaurante Fin de Siglo

The master of finding affordable meals in obscure places is back, this time traveling south of the border to find a filling meal in the city of Queretaro, Mexico.   I’ve always been a person accepting of living life to the fullest and if that means living by anecdotes, then by all means please sign…

Authentic Nashville Hot Chicken at Fremont Diner
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Authentic Nashville Hot Chicken at Fremont Diner

Update 2023: The Freemont Diner has closed for business.   We came to Fremont Diner for punishment. Spicy unforgivable gastronomic punishment. We were in search of authentic Nashville Hot chicken, an often imitated culinary trend that unless genuinely from middle Tennessee, never truly lived up to the name. Yet there we were, in the heart of…

The truth of woman and beer: Ninkasi
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The truth of woman and beer: Ninkasi

Deep in the cradle of civilization, something more was brewing than mans’ intention of conquering the known world. Women were brewing their own ideas but these ideas would not disappear with the sand. These ideas were born of yeast, grains, dates and honey. These ideas became beer and it was a woman’s world. To get…

Kelsey Creek Brewing Company is Wine Country’s Coziest Brewery
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Kelsey Creek Brewing Company is Wine Country’s Coziest Brewery

  Nestled in the shadow of a long dormant volcano not far from the banks of one of California’s largest lakes and surrounded by rolling vineyards and lazy hills is the cozy town of Kelseyville. It is also home to the Kelsey Creek Brewing Company. The nano brewery was tucked among the storefronts looking straight from…

The Selling out of Craft Beer
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The Selling out of Craft Beer

Another one bites the dust. With the news from California about brewery Saint Archer finding its way into the loving arms of macro brewing behemoth MillerCoors, which was right on the heels of an announcement from craftbeer champion Lagunitas selling 50% of its ownership to Heineken, craft beer lovers are sitting with distrustful stares into the…

Collaboration brew set to take the Marble City by storm
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Collaboration brew set to take the Marble City by storm

He didn’t plan to make beer history when he asked a brewer friend to help him craft a beer to pour at his booth during Brewfest, Knoxville’s seminal spring beer festival. What Zack Roskop did was strike a spark that lit a brewing powderkeg that would echo among the cities’ bars for years to come….