An Insider's guide to restaurants, wine, spirits and culinary travel
glass half full: 1/5/2018
A roundup of the most interesting food, wine and spirits stories on the web (because even Al Gore, who invented it, doesn't have time to read them all)
Roadside guacamole: the logical successor to tableside guacamole.
A Mexican truck explodes, dumping 40,000 pounds of molten guacamole on a Texas highway:
http://www.grubstreet.com/2017/12/40000-pounds-of-avocados-burned-on-a-texas-highway.html
The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind fine.
After five years, Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant is finally closing:
Further proof (if proof were needed) that Canadians are an eminently sensible group.
North of the border, they’re spending almost as much on weed as wine:
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/12/canada-spent-almost-as-much-on-weed-as-wine-in-2015/
If Kim Jung Un launches a nuclear attack on the U.S., we’ll always have the crackers.
Here’s something to cheer you up:
https://www.eater.com/2017/12/12/16757660/doomsday-biscuit-all-purpose-survival-cracker
Want to pass physics? Drink more whisky.
The hard stuff can help explain the concept of deep time:
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/12/whisky-can-help-explain-the-concept-of-deep-time/
Subway closed nearly 1,000 U.S. stores in 2017.
Franchisees are in full revolt against the $5 Footlong:
http://www.grubstreet.com/2017/12/subway-closed-909-locations-and-franchisees-are-in-revolt.html
