The previous , great Jackie Gleason once tell , " A man must defend his home , his married woman , his children , and his martini . " And if he ’s speaking the verity , it seems my unmarried , childless , flat - inhabit arse has but one responsibility to bear on : the martini . There ’s only one job here – much likefine wine , pitch-dark coffee , and give your own cellphone note , this timeless tipple has always brood staunchly within the realm ofbig - metre maturity , an unshakable ( see what I did there ?...

In America , eighteen - yr - old can vote , operate a motor vehicle , give taxes , marry , become a effectual defender , own a gun for hire , press and die in a foreign country , and even become regulator of the great country of Rhode Island . One could easily debate that one or many of those bears right smart more responsibility than fuddle alcohol ....

stock your kitchen with the correct gadgets can be costly and overwhelming , but without the proper pans , how would you cook all theseone - slew pasta recipes ? Or any of thesesuper - healthy weeknight dinner recipes ? ? How would you know all thethings you ’re doing legal injury making pasta sauce , if you do n’t even have a comely wad in which to ready the pasta sauce !...

What makes a mixologist great ? Impressive cocktail - lay down abilities ? An extraordinary patience when listening to your whiney breakup stories ? Infinite knowledge of what makes salutary ice and the power to tell you about it ? Phoenix mixologist Keifer Gilbert hits all these note and more , making him a changemaker in Arizona ’s cocktail civilization . You ’ve likely spotted Keifer behind the bar at some of your favorite Phoenix area hangouts –Under Tow , Okra , Kaz Bar , and Scottsdale ’s late - night drinkery , Counter Intuitive ....

receive back toOff the Menu , where former server and present author C.A. Pinkham brings you the best and strangest food story from his email inbox . This hebdomad , we ’ve got story of the most fantastically dumb customer ever to grace a restaurant ’s doors . As always , these are genuine emails from real reader , though names have been alter . Do you have a restaurant , home - cooking , or any other nutrient - adjacent story you ’d like to see appear in Off the Menu ( on ANY subject , not just this one ) ?...

The City Barbecoa Jamie Oliver may have lead the charge for getting kids to wipe out healthily , but we ’re all adults here , and in his chophouse overlooking St Paul ’s Cathedral , he hold nothing back with his afters fare . White chocolate cheesecake , crème fraîche panna cotta , and some seriously epic house - made ice rink cream wait you at the end of the meal … or just hop-skip the sum course and go straight for the sweet ; we wo n’t pass judgment ....

heed up , Seattle ! The city is celebrate all things culinary with two week of non - contain deals on some of the good restaurant around . For food fiend in the PNW , Seattle Restaurant Weekis their Bumbershoot … their HempFest … their Super Bowl ( because it ’s right smart too early to differentiate if we ’ll get one from the Seahawks this year ) . Most all of the restaurants participating in the event offer a three - course dinner for $ 32 and some will offer a three - row dejeuner for $ 18 , all over a 10 - sidereal day period ....

Get ripe avocados without having to wait an eternity. Avocadosare great , right ? They ’re high in levelheaded fats , low in carbs , and stacked withtons of superfood vitamins and mineral , include morehangover - curing potassiumthan a banana . Plus , they ’re delicious when they ’re skilful and good — which , sadly , does n’t always happen . hope to defy nature ’s slow outgrowth , I test five coarse get - ripe - spry fast one on six innocent , equally unripe Hass avocado purchased from the same market ....

If you grow up in Chicago , there were sure things you could n’t avoid no matter how firmly you examine . As soon as you turned on the Cubs biz orThe Bozo Show , there they were : the Empire guy , the Victory Auto Wreckers dude , Eagle Man . For better or bad , they ’re part of you now . So we thought rather of struggle it , we ’d embrace our nostalgic past and revisit the very practiced classic Chicago telecasting commercials that make up our Hall of Fame course ....

Sip on blueberry beer by a fire pit, blow your own glass, and watch for rare birds. Is there anything dreamier than being able-bodied to say “ I ’m heading Upstate ” ? The results are in and the solution is a resonant no . Upstate New York is the stunning part that lies northwards and northwestward of New York City . Replete with picturesqueapple pickingandleaf peepingin the fall , alongsidecozy lodgingsandexciting thing to doyear round , it ’s a seemingly endless bucket tilt of getaway address , no matter the season ....

This summertime , Netflix’sStranger Thingstransported us from chaotic 2016 into 1983 illusion . The creative thinker - bender rolledE.T.,Alien , Stand by Me , Pretty in Pink , The Thing , The Mist , andClose Encounters of the Third Kindinto one warm squeeze of a TV serial . As far as indulging in puerility nostalgia is concerned , Stranger Thingswas a four - course meal contain of desserts . Where do satisfied bingers turn to while they wait forSeason 2 ?...

You do n’t have to be a full - flight railroad car nut to like model cars . After all , the womb-to-tomb family relationship with all thing self-propelled begin with that first 99 - cent Hot Wheels give to us sometime just after infancy . As we grow up , diecast models are a never-ending monitor of the foresighted wait for that driver ’s license and all the sweet , sweet freedom it represents ....

In a metropolis where money , size , and standing are king , Dallas is almost compulsively preoccupied with its ranking to gas itself as " world class . " Yet just at the national tier of best American city , it ’s in the main accepted that Dallas falls somewhere in the top 10 and unremarkably jostles with in - state rival Houston for the fifth or sixth spot , depending on what metric unit those ranking are based upon ( cost of living , school organisation , number of NFL crown in the 1990s ) ....