Food & Travel What, exactly, is a travel writer who cannot travel? A feature essay in the Washington Post Magazine in which I take a journey inward to reflect on the lessons of travel 4 0 0
Food & Travel The Endless Siesta In Spain, I took measure of what had changed in the country — and in myself — since the pandemic. From the Washington Post Magazine. 0 0 0
Cider Why the Finger Lakes Is Becoming the Capital of Cider My travel feature in Travel + Leisure on the Finger Lakes cider trail. 0 0 0
Spirits Once Sleepy, Cognac Has Become a Top Spirits Destination My travel feature on Cognac, in Travel + Leisure. 0 0 0
Spirits, Wine Check out my newsletter, Everyday Drinking Explore a wide world of wine, spirit, travel, and culture. 0 0 0
Food & Travel The Best American Travel Writing The 2020 edition of The Best American Travel Writing anthology is out now! 3 2 0
Food & Travel A Round of Applause for Parsnips? ‘Oh wow! Look at those beautiful parsnips!’ said no one ever. From Heated. 0 0 0
Food & Travel On Boars, Booze, and Barbarism Observations on an autumn hunt in France, from Heated 0 0 0
Food & Travel Check Out This Definitive Book on Pasta The 1974 masterwork ‘The Pasta Codex’ is finally translated into English. From Heated. 1 0 0
Food & Travel Orange is the Color of a Fall Pantry Why this sweet potato recipe Is my go-to autumn staple, from Heated 0 0 0
Wine Loire Chenin Blanc: Underrated No More My comprehensive report on Loire Valley Chenin Blanc, from Vinous 0 0 0
Food & Travel On Travel Writing In the absence of travel, what is a travel writer to do? From Guernica. 0 0 0
Spirits One Plus One Equals Cocktail Unfussy drinks that require nothing more than opening some booze, then something fizzy, then pouring both into a glass with ice. From Heated. 0 0 0
Food & Travel In troubled times, make your memories as best you can. An essay about pasta in a pandemic, published in Heated. 0 0 0
Wine Wine in the Time of the Virus Given current events, what’s the worth of holding onto a wine meant to age. In Everyday Drinking. 0 0 0
Food & Travel God and Pesto Are Dead The Genoese were miffed about my Pesto Generator — but for Americans, cultural contamination is love. From Heated. 1 0 0
Food & Travel We Were Wrong to Give Up on Pour-Over Coffee It’s the perfect meditation for our time 0 0 0
Food & Travel Playmobil’s Plan to Infiltrate Your Workplace Not content to have shaped your childhood, the toy company now wants to shape your office life. From Washington Post Magazine. 0 0 0
Wine The Enigmatic Joy of Swiss Wine Wines from Switzerland may represent the height of obscurity, but they’re worth seeking out. From the Washington Post. 0 0 0
Cider The Best Wine Books Are Not Always About Wine Accolades for The Cider Revival in The New York Times. 0 0 0
Wine German Wine and The Sweet Hereafter A personal journey across generations sharing a love for Germany’s wines. 2 0 0
Spirits Unraveling the Secrets of Cognac Among the world’s finest spirits, Cognac is still a confounding place. In this Vinous report, I cover 50+ producers, with 200+ bottle reviews. 0 0 0
Food & Travel Foodizen My new column, for the Philadelphia Citizen, delves into the nexus of food and culture in Philly. 1 0 0
Food & Travel, Spirits We Need To Talk About Rum The “Tasting of the Century” raises questions about what lurks in rum’s past. In Everyday Drinking. 1 0 0
Wine Will Your Favorite Wines Taste Different? There’s a good chance, because of climate change. From Heated. 0 0 0
Cider Cider House Rules In Spanish Basque Country, sampling cider and an ancient ritual. From the New York Times Travel section. 0 1 0
Wine One of 2018’s “Best Wine Books” NY Times names Godforsaken Grapes one of the year’s “Best Wine Books”! 1 0 0
Food & Travel The Sommeliers of Everything In our era of hyper-credentialism, there’s a creeping wine-ification in all realms of taste, none without a certified expert. From Washington Post M... 1 0 0
Wine Why You Should Be Drinking Weird Wines An call to arms from my new book, Godforsaken Grapes, excerpted in the New York Times Opinion section. 0 0 0
Spirits Calvados: The Apple Of A Brandy Drinker’s Eye My report, in Vinous, with reviews on more than 80 spirits from 20 top producers. 0 0 0
Cider How Sweet It Isn’t Cidermakers work to fight the misconception that cider is not dry, in the Washington Post. 0 0 0
Food & Travel At a Snail’s Pace In the Washington Post, I explore whether American escargot is, very slowly, starting to have a moment. 1 0 0
Spirits Fresh-Cut Obsession Rum enthusiasts love fresh sugarcane rums. My report on rhum agricole and clairin in the New York Times. 0 0 0
Wine How Do You Like Your Wine? Rare and Well Done In the Alps, viticulture geeks save and preserve rare and obscure wines. My feature travel article in AFAR. 0 0 0
Wine The Meaning of Groo-Vee My love letter to grüner veltliner in the Washington Post, an excerpt from Godforsaken Grapes. 0 1 0
Spirits Aged Agave Picking an extra añejo tequila takes extra care. My report in the New York Times on this flamboyant category. 0 0 0
Food & Travel Journeys in Trump World Here’s what I glimpsed about America’s future as a tourist at Trump resorts, in the Washington Post Magazine. 1 0 0
Spirits Armagnac: An Education To make its case, Armagnac has to teach the teachers. My report on this amazing brandy in the New York Times. 0 0 0
Cider Excerpt from THE CIDER REVIVAL Excerpt from my book, named a “Best Wine Book” in 2019 by The New York Times. 0 0 0
Beer Vermont Beer Crawl Is the Green Mountain state becoming the Napa Valley of craft brew? My journey in the Washington Post Magazine. 0 0 0
Cider Think you know what cider is? At Cider Con, I learned that you’re probably wrong. My report in the Washington Post. 0 0 0
Food & Travel Puff Piece For Ybor City in Florida, a historic cigar town faces a cloudy future. My feature in the Washington Post. 0 0 0
Wine Austrian Wine: Future is Now My report in Beverage Media on the exciting emergence of Austrian wine, from blaufränkisch to gemischter satz. 1 0 0
Food & Travel Verona’s Kebab Kibosh The dark side of food protectionism. Dispatch in Roads & Kingdoms. 1 0 0
Food & Travel Freudian Trip Is Vienna really the most livable city? My pleasurable investigation in the Washington Post Magazine. 1 0 0
Food & Travel Under the Crushing Weight of the Tuscan Sun On the 20th anniversary of Frances Mayes’s bestseller, a look at the insidious Tuscan phenomenon. In the New Yorker. 0 0 0
Wine Wine Media is Broken: A Case Study In a “post-critic” world, reviews have only become more monetized. Does the industry care about consumers or scores? 0 0 0