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Almost As Good As Dublin: Guinness Over The Moon Milk Stout and Stock Ale Aged in Bulleit Bourbon Barrels

NOTE: I had almost finished this article about Milk Stout when I got a second box-full o’goodness from Guinness: a sample of their new Stock Ale.  I decided to go with reviewing each of them separately, but serially.  NOTE ALSO: … Continue reading

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Bourbon and Beer: Not Just for Boilermakers Any More

Note: This report was contributed by Barry, the resident beer-lover (using the editorial “we”). Last week, we had the opportunity to attend the first tasting of the newest product from Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House in Baltimore, Guinness … Continue reading

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Review: The New Chesapeake Kitchen by John Shields

Another winning cookbook by one of the champion promoters of our local foodshed!  John Shields’ latest book is a repeat of a winning formula – a collection of recipes by chefs and home cooks all around the Chesapeake Bay and … Continue reading

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The Last Rational Regional Book Festival

There was a time, back in the Golden Age (five years or so ago), when there were at least three book festivals in this area with food/cookbook tracks, but lately, in an alarming trend, two of them have all but … Continue reading

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Save the Price of a Ticket to Dublin: Guinness Has Arrived in Maryland

Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House, Relay (or is it Halethorpe?) Now Open Great news for beer drinkers near Baltimore!  Guinness has opened their one and only brewery in the New World.  They took an old distillery building complex … Continue reading

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Lights On In Baltimore: Food Lab@Light City 2017

Climbing the stairs to the second floor space of IMET Columbus Center, on a pier of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, I was worried that this event would be a generator of monotonous visuals – just one set of folks talking after … Continue reading

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Corn Maiden, Gummy Man, Swpeepish Chef: AVAM Encounters Food, and It Is Us

Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, Director of the American Visionary Art Museum, is energized: “This is our first major show with all our artists still alive,” she explained, and many of them were having a good time schmoozing with each other, there … Continue reading

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The Weekend of the Books: Two Festivals, Too Much

What genius decided that the National Book Festival would take place on the same weekend as the Baltimore Book Festival???  Friday’s heat and Saturday’s concrete floors darn near did me in, even as I limited my attendance in Baltimore to … Continue reading

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Conserver of a Great Tradition – Review: Chesapeake Bay Cooking with John Shields

Have you ever picked up one of those spiral-bound cookbooks published by a community group, expecting to find it full of recipes redolent of the culture or region of its origin, only to discover it contains only a single section … Continue reading

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Can’t Wait for the Baltimore Book Festival!

This weekend, the Baltimore Book Festival will surround the Inner Harbor with book- and reading-related activities.  The food options have been expanded (I hear rumors of lobster rolls), and all vendors will be local and sustainably sourced.  Even the demos … Continue reading

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