An Insider's guide to restaurants, wine, spirits and culinary travel
Glass Half Full: 4/24/2018
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)
Apocalypse or no apocalypse, some of us will get our protein.
For a mere $6,000, Costco will sell you a year's worth of survival supplies:
http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/03/costco-selling-family-sized-food-kits-for-doomsday-preppers.html
Tell us something we don't know.
America's obesity epidemic is getting worse:
http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/03/americas-obesity-rate-hits-record-high.html
Paving the way for McDonald's at Mount Rushmore:
No, you can't visit a national park without a frappuccino.
https://www.thedailymeal.com/drink/starbucks-yosemite-national-park/032818
The Rodney Dangerfield of Whisky
A prominent cocktail website actually runs a piece extolling the virtues of Canadian whisky:
https://punchdrink.com/articles/should-drink-best-canadian-whiskey-crown-royal-whisky/
Leave the gun, take the cannoli:
Thieves in Quebec steal $500,000 worth of beer, dried beef and pepperoni:
By the cheese they eat, ye shall know them.
The sociology of cheese:
https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/paxqgk/what-cheese-can-tell-us-about-class-in-america
