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May 22, 2024 | 
coolmaterial.com | Brett Braley |Dillon McLaughlin |Ben Dahl
The hero product in Montblanc’s line-up of pens, the Meisterstück model, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Sure, there’s a time and place for a Bic or Zebra, but no other pen has symbolized luxury quite like the Meisterstück. It’s been used by royals, celebrities, high-profile business leaders, and more for a century now. It’s hard for anything to stay relevant for that long, let alone a humble writing tool.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
coolmaterial.com | Johnny Motley |John Paradiso |Christopher Osburn |Dillon McLaughlin
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
coolmaterial.com | Dillon McLaughlin
When I came back to my hometown from grad school in 2019, two high school friends and I came to the realization that we needed to make more friends. Most of the people we hung out with up to that point had started chucking themselves at New York, Boston, DC, Seattle, Los Angeles, and anywhere else that wasn’t a midsized Mid-Atlantic American city. Yet we didn’t really know where to find new friends.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
coolmaterial.com | Dillon McLaughlin
In the ever-evolving world of craft beer, where innovation and creativity often take center stage, it’s important not to forget the brewing pioneers that laid the foundation for America’s rich beer culture. These venerable institutions have weathered the storms of Prohibition, changing tastes, and economic challenges to emerge as icons of American brewing history that are an integral part of our nation’s beer heritage–and they deserve well-earned praise for doing so.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Dillon McLaughlin
BeerNowThe Most Delicious Beers in America247wallst.com - Colman Andrews • 9mWhile Americans drink more wine and cocktails now than 20 years ago, beer remains the dominant alcoholic beverage, with over 6 billion gallons …Restaurants1 day agoMy family spent $93 on lunch at Gordon Ramsay's fish-and-chips chain in Orlando, and it was worth it for the fried lobster aloneInsider - Terri Peters • 1dI'm a big fan of Gordon Ramsay.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
coolmaterial.com | Dillon McLaughlin
My grandparents had a place in the Poconos up until I was in college, and I grew up going in and out of the Appalachians. Over time, I learned enough to be able to rattle off a few fun facts about the mountains here and there: They’re one of the oldest ranges in the world. The region was a haven for Scotch-Irish settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries after being expelled from their homelands by the English.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Dillon McLaughlin
What It’s Like to Wander the Ice Caves of IcelandMy grandparents had a place in the Poconos up until I was in college, and I grew up going in and out of the Appalachians. Over time, I learned enough …
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
coolmaterial.com | Dillon McLaughlin |John Paradiso |Cooper Fleishman
Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. It never made sense to me that more breweries don’t have small distilling operations attached to them. Roughly speaking, you have to make beer to make whiskey–whiskey wash is even sometimes called distiller’s beer–so why wouldn’t craft brewers siphon off a bit from some of their more interesting brews to distill into unique spirits?
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
coolmaterial.com | Dillon McLaughlin
One of my college professors, Dr. McKay Jenkins, has a TEDx Talk on the abstraction of American food. He covers a few different angles in the talk, all of them revolving around his thesis that we have no idea where our food comes from. After the Second World War, we sacrificed local food production for the good of suburbia, then flattened the bulk of our farming into corn, soybeans, and wheat.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
coolmaterial.com | Dillon McLaughlin
Electric cars are becoming increasingly popular, and for good reason. They’re more efficient and environmentally friendly than gas-powered cars, and they’re starting to offer the same level of performance. In fact, some of the fastest cars on the market today are electric. That alone makes them enticing enough to want to learn more about, even if very few (if any) of us interested in the topic get the chance to drive one. Even if we do, we’re not the ones setting any kind of land speed records.
