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Taking A Bite Out of Art: Maite Gomez-Rejón
Maite Gomez-Rejón is a one-time private chef who has cooked for the likes of Aerosmith and KISS. On that same resume, she’s also boasted years of experience in museum education working for other big names …
Underground Food Collective
From their pre-industrial pig dinners to lessons on how to hack apart your own livestock and poultry, Madison, Wisconsin’s Underground Food Collective’s holistic, process-based approach to growing, preparing, and eating your meals has been attracting …
Vintner Goes Rogue: Justin Lane
Justin Lane is a legend among ‘garage’ wine makers for his passionately crafted wines and loveable rogue-vintner ways. After years of making other people’s bottles notorious, Lane’s newest incarnation — his own wine label, Alpha …
Her Tasty Magic: Laura Santtini
Laura Santtini describes herself as ‘a writer who cooks’. But her resume extends well beyond to television, food consultancy, restaurants, and more. And then there is her Easy Tasty Magic series. This collection of rubs, …
Design Down Under: Mash
Based out of Adelaide, Mash design boasts some of the most imaginative labels coming out of the wine industry today. After covering heaps of their work, we at The Urban Grocer were joensin’ to have …
Local, Artisanal, Slow: Badamo, Sicily
Nestled on the isolated peaks of the Madonie mountains in Sicily, Italy lies Badamo: a bakery that epitomizes what the slow food movement – particularly in this country – is all about. To be fair, …
His Thirsty Work: Matt Skinner
Matt Skinner puts to rest any notion you may have that all wine guys are a bit too, well, uppity. And that’s the point. Making himself and wine simple and easy to understand is a …
The Baroque Era
Nestled in The Rocks, Sydney sits a promising up-and-coming patisserie where classic and contemporary French pastries are prepared in a buzzing open kitchen. Here, at Baroque Patisserie, traditional macarons, in flavors like Salted Caramel and …
With Candy Google Eyes: Clare Crespo
LA-based food artist Clare Crespo is mad about cupcakes and she’s made it her life’s work to spread the sugary love.The multi-talented food fanatic is a columnist, cookbook author, cooking teacher, food crocheter, and host of …
In Zee Kitchen with Zumbo
Adriano Zumbo is not your typical pastry chef. Not only do his cakes sport names like ‘Luke Rides the Tube’, ‘Escape from the Columbian Rainforest’, and ‘Is Anybody Working’, but his creative collections of pastries …
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