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Your Daily Bread: Grilled Cheesus
You, dear reader, first learned about her when she bravely joined a pickle-eating contest in the name of The Urban Grocer. She’s fellow contributor – and my friend – Meg and not only does she …
Taking the Snob Out of Wine Snob: Joe Roberts
Take the snob out of the wine snob, and what’s left? Joe Roberts, the man behind the wildly popular and often irreverent 1 Wine Dude blog. Roberts, who’s based in Philadelphia, is serious about his …
It’s the Jam: Jessica Koslow, Sqirl
Nagami Kumquat Marmalade. Seascape Strawberry and Marjoram. Moro Blood Orange + Campari Jelly. Step aside grape jelly, Sqirl is here. And it’s the jam – organic jams, jellies, and marmalades to be exact. The labor …
Sommelier Extraordinaire: Nigel Tollerman
Spend two minutes with Nigel Tollerman and there is no doubt in your mind that this guy knows his wine. And that he loves it too. Hailing from London, Tollerman settled down in Buenos Aires, …
Food, Travel & TV: Shannon Keenan Demers | Part 2
From Los Angeles to Sydney, Wisconsin to London, food writers, artists, chefs, sommeliers, and designers have all chatted it up with The Urban Grocer, giving our readers a snapshot of their food-obsessed lives. A few …
Food, Travel & TV: Shannon Keenan Demers
Like all great Hollywood stories, I first met Shannon Keenan Demers poolside at a Los Angeles hotel. With an impressive resume chock full of food and travel television production – and as co-owner of 2Tall …
Chatting It Up with Matt (Armendariz) Bites
Browse through Matt Armendariz’s uber popular blog, MattBites, and you’ll quickly notice that this is a man who gets stuff done – a lot of stuff. He is a photographer, writer, food stylist, cookbook author, …
Boutique Butchering to Inspire: Lindy & Grundy
Lindy & Grundy’s is an old-school butcher shop – sort of. They carry only pastured meats raised on small, local, sustainable farms, and they practice a true nose-to-tail butchering. There are no hormones in the …
Heart to Heart: Jeff Segal
If you’re bored with uptight wine bars where how you hold your Riedel is more important than what’s it in, it’s time to give Heart a try. At this San Francisco-based wine bar-cum-restaurant-cum-art gallery, wines …
The Girl & The Fig: Sondra Bernstein
Sondra Bernstein loves figs so much that she has dedicated an entire culinary empire in its honour. Beginning with her first celebrated restaurant The Girl & The Fig in Sonoma, California, Sondra has since gone …
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