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Insider Guide to Dallas Restaurants from Smoke Chef Tim Byres

Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2013

In this Article Tim Byres’s Favorite Dallas Restaurants Dallas Bars Dallas Shopping Picks Tim Byres’s Dallas Hotel Picks Tim Byres’s Favorite Dallas Restaurants True Tex-Mex: El Ranchito “El Ranchito is a great place to see legitimate family-style Texas Mexican food. No one speaks any English, there’s an abuela (“grandmother”) in the corner making fresh tortillas and they also have mariac...

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Insider Guide to Phoenix Restaurants from a Local Star Chef

Date: Mon, Jan 7, 2013

In this Article Phoenix Restaurants Phoenix-Area Restaurants Phoenix-Area Shopping Picks Phoenix-Area Sights Phoenix-Area Hotels Phoenix Restaurants Go-To Lunch: The Main Ingredient Ale House & Café “I go here every Monday for lunch on my day off. It’s a local pub around the corner from my house and they serve really fresh salads and sandwiches. I have a Sophie’s Salad every week, without the cheese....

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Top Chef Judge Hugh Acheson's Favorite Atlanta Restaurants

Date: Fri, Jan 4, 2013

In this Article Hugh Acheson’s Favorite Atlanta Restaurants Atlanta Shopping Picks Hugh Acheson’s Favorite Atlanta Restaurants Photo © Laura Rubinstein. Best Loaf: H & F Bread Co. “This is chef Linton Hopkins’s bakery, and they supply some of our bread at the restaurant. The Pullman and sourdough loaves are really good.” hfbreadco.com Sichuan Fix: Gu’s Bistro “Gu’s serves a...

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Editor’s Letter February 2013

Date: Thu, Dec 27, 2012

We are living in a 24-hour world—working, texting and Instagramming day and night. The happy corollary is that we’re eating great food around the clock, too. We highlight 50 absolutely delicious dishes in this February issue. Our story “Capital Improvement” collects recipes from Washington, DC’s incredible new breakfast, lunch, dinner, after-hours and snack spots. If you had told me when I was a Senate intern during college that Washington would one da...

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Why Food Lovers Are Loving Asheville

Date: Thu, Dec 27, 2012

In this Article Asheville Restaurants Black Book One of the reasons Asheville’s outsiders give for their relocation to town is the scenery: Clouds comb out like low smoke over the mountains, the hills like tired, mossy stones. I decided that after visiting three breweries in one afternoon, it was time to get outside. Chef Katie Button admitted that, though everybody is theoretically excited about the outdoors, none of the town’s restaurateurs ever ...

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5 Crimes Against Coffee

Date: Thu, Dec 27, 2012

CRIMES AGAINST COFFEE BUYING OLD BEANS “Make sure you choose a coffee with a roast date, not a ‘best by’ date. Preferably, that date should be no longer than a week ago. Then use it up, share it with friends, or buy smaller bags so you move through it quickly. Sometimes lightly roasted coffee can be good for a couple of weeks after opening, but in general, fresher is better.” GRINDING IN ADVANCE “Buy whole...

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Sherry on Top

Date: Thu, Dec 27, 2012

In this Article Top London Sherry Bars 5 Great Sherries to Buy On a recent trip to London, I ordered a glass of sherry at Morito, the pint-size tapas-bar offshoot of the acclaimed Exmouth Market restaurant Moro. When he heard my order, my server—a bearded twentysomething kid who exuded cool like a fog—raised his fist. Right on, man. Sherry power. “Sherry,” he said, with a nod of approval. I asked him if he drank sherry himse...

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Maple’s New Mavericks

Date: Wed, Dec 26, 2012

Photo © Michael Turek. Driving between the majestic blue-granite pillars and up, up the long road edged by tall maple trees to Crown Maple Syrup’s sugarhouse at Madava Farms, I was immediately reminded of the many trips I’ve made to the great wineries of California. The similarities continued in Crown Maple’s tasting room. The artisanship on display (complete with shiny stainless steel holding tanks and bottling lines) was not what I was expecting in rura...

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A Coffee-Geek Primer

Date: Wed, Dec 26, 2012

In this Article Best Coffee Grinder Buying Coffee Beans Understanding Roast Levels How to Brew the Perfect Cup In the specialty-coffee world, the level of obsession over how to brew the perfect cup has reached maddening levels of complexity. The choices seem infinite: There are single-origin beans and multi-estate blends; light, fruity roasts that are growing in popularity and darker, more bitter options; and a multitude of brewing de...

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Easy Chinese Recipes for Takeout Experts

Date: Wed, Dec 26, 2012

In this Article Video: Ming Tsai on How to Spot a Good Chinese Restaurant Photo © Michael Turek. After I’ve spent a long day in the F&W Test Kitchen, a trek down to Chinatown for fresh noodles or special spices just isn’t going to happen. But, with some cross-cultural engineering, I’ve discovered ways to make some of my favorite Chinese recipes totally supermarket-accessible. The key is using a few Western ingredie...

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Washington, DC’s New Food Scene

Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2012

Where to Eat and Go in Washington, DC Morning Noon Late Afternoon Evening Late-Night Design Shop More New Openings Video: Washington, DC Chef José Andrés Photo © Marcus Nilsson. Morning Kapnos At Kapnos, set to open this spring, Mike Isabella of Graffiato, Bandolero and Top Chef fame will make Greek food starting with brunch: Dishes will include baked orzo with spinach and feta (...

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Bread and Breakfast

Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2012

In this Article Bread Trend: Hearty Nordic Loaves Bread Trend: Bagels Bread Trend: Global Flatbreads Video: Breakfast Recipes Bread Trend: Hearty Nordic Loaves As New Nordic cuisine infiltrates the American restaurant scene, there’s a surging interest here in Nordic foods, among them dark, crusty loaves of rye bread. “In Finland, bakers traditionally use wheat flour only for cookies and cakes,” says Finnish-born ...

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A Fashionably Late Dinner Party with Erin Fetherston

Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2012

In this Article Cocktails for the Butterfly Photo © Jonny Valiant. Chef Michael White is an XXL, former high school offensive left tackle from Beloit, Wisconsin. Erin Fetherston is a California-born, Paris-trained fashion designer who wears a size zero and occasionally models the lacy, feminine dresses in her eponymous line. But they have a few things in common, starting with a New York City address. That’s because White’s ...

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Montreal Holiday Guide: David McMillan and Frédéric Morin Go Night Skiing, Eat Duck in a Can

Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2012

Best Shopping Street: Sainte-Catherine Street There’s nothing like that day when you decide to get a babysitter and go out with your wife to do the holiday shopping on Sainte-Catherine Street. Hopefully, it’s gray out; hopefully, there’s a light snow; and hopefully, when you’re done shopping, you can have lunch at L’Express (below). tourisme-montreal.org Household Gifts: The Bay It’s one of Canada’s oldest retail stores, and it was founded...

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