Hannah Walhout

1 month ago | portside.org | Hannah Walhout

Tinned Fish Is As Hot as Ever in the U.S. so Why Aren’t We Making It Ourselves? Published May 19, 2025 Sometime around 2015, Keper Connell had an epiphany while on vacation in Barcelona. He had long worked as a commercial fisherman, doing all kinds of fishing jobs throughout the seasons. “But most of that was just so I could keep catching bluefin tuna,” he said. He loved the challenge, heading out to the Gulf of Maine from his home in New Hampshire with just rod and reel.

1 month ago | punchdrink.com | Hannah Walhout

“I probably spent the last 20-plus years not particularly interested in vodka Martinis, for many reasons,” says William Elliott, managing partner and executive bar director at Brooklyn, New York’s Maison Premiere. “But in truth—and really, anyone who knows me knows that I never make statements like this—that changed with one specific vodka.”  The bottle that did it was Truman, a wheat vodka from eau de vie whisperer Hans Reisetbauer.

2 months 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.

Mar 26, 2025 | 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.

Mar 10, 2025 | 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.