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3 weeks ago | 
punchdrink.com | Hannah Walhout
The afternoon crowd at Baixela was sipping tiny coffees and digging into plates of liver and okra as I sat down for a leisurely lunch, killing time before heading to the airport. I’d heard the small bar in Copacabana was worth visiting among Rio de Janeiro’s new-wave botecos: Brazilian establishments akin to dive-y taverns with unfussy drinks and solid food, which have been, like many such venues the world over, revisited and reinterpreted in recent years.
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1 month ago | 
wineenthusiast.com | Hannah Walhout
A few years ago, Lasha Tsatava and Erika Frey were catching up over a bottle of wine when, Tsatava says, “a connection was made.” It was a somewhat unusual bottle—one that spoke to and reflected both of them. The wine was from the United States, and specifically, the Finger Lakes: a region Frey was passionate about in her work as a wine educator and consultant.
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2 months ago | 
foodprint.org | Kristen Link |Hannah Walhout
In the mid-1970s, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a relief and social service agency headquartered in Pennsylvania, called upon North Americans to be more thoughtful about their lifestyles and consumption habits. It was a time for questioning: The global “food crisis” of the early part of the decade, which saw falling food production and widespread famine in parts of the world, was still reverberating.
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2 months ago | 
punchdrink.com | Hannah Walhout
Night on Earth, the second Los Angeles spot from the minds behind acclaimed Echo Park cocktail bar Thunderbolt, opened in mid-December 2024 just off the 101 on the Cahuenga Pass, between the San Fernando Valley and the Hollywood Hills. The windowless space, long an entertainment industry haunt and home to many tenants over the last half-decade, is a “classic LA strip-mall dive bar,” says owner-operator Mike Capoferri.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Hannah Walhout
Some only do it once every four days. Some are going a full month without it.We are, unfortunately, talking about bathing.An Internet trend that …
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2 months ago | 
travelandleisure.com | Hannah Walhout
Buildings in the Edo Period style in the town of Magome, Japan. Photo: BenLevyPhotography/iStockphoto/Getty Images In the 1830s, at the tail end of Japan’s flourishing Edo Period, two artists set out to document one of the country’s great roads. Crossing seven modern-day prefectures and the snowy crags of the Japanese Alps, this thoroughfare, the Nakasendō, connected the imperial capital of Kyoto with the cultural capital of Edo (now Tokyo).
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
wineenthusiast.com | Hannah Walhout
In 1970, the Institut National des Appellations d’Origine (INAO)—the French government agency created to designate and regulate Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC) wines—selected its official glass. It was a far cry from the big, swirl-friendly bowls, highly calibrated curves and flares you might see at a tasting today. The glass stood at just over six inches tall, with a short stem and a small tulip-shaped bowl—about 1.8 inches in diameter at the rim with a total volume of seven ounces.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
punchdrink.com | Hannah Walhout
“For me, it all started with seeing someone as high-profile as Bella get involved,” says Victoria Watters, cofounder of Dry Atlas, a media and insights company focused on the nonalcoholic beverage category. Watters had long been familiar with Kin Euphorics when Bella Hadid joined the alcohol-alternative brand in 2021; Kin was a mainstay on the shelves at Spirited Away, the N/A bottle shop in Manhattan founded by her husband, Douglas.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
travelandleisure.com | Hannah Walhout
As I rounded a rocky promontory, a picture-perfect cove appeared, complete with golden beach and a lone white sailboat bobbing in the distance. But my eye was drawn to the angular structure on the hillside above the water, the only small interruption to an otherwise pristine Caribbean tableau. In the 1950s, David Rockefeller decided to build a vacation home on a little island between St. Martin and St. Kitts.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
wineenthusiast.com | Hannah Walhout
“The martini’s origins are woozy,” Alice Lascelles writes in her new book, The Martini: The Ultimate Guide to a Cocktail Icon. But while the drink’s provenance is the subject of much debate, one thing is not: When it comes to a martini, glassware is key. And amid a boom in the classic cocktail, which has been growing in popularity for the past few years, a rise in interesting glassware has followed. Bartenders are selecting ultra-specific glasses to set their drinks apart.
