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If Starbucks Wants to Reclaim the Third Space, It Needs to Stop Selling Mid-Level Coffee
“Too fancy to be basic, too basic to be fancy”
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Tell me what style of wine you like to drink and I'll tell you what to buy next
A little diversity goes a long way
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Why does it bother us that "With Love, Meghan" is so nice?
People didn't like Martha Stewart because she didn't act nice and they don't like Meghan because...she does?
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Tell me what's in your fridge and I'll give you a recipe
Time for something different
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Three female winemakers you should know about in Portugal
In celebration of International Women's Day
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A little more Bourdain, a little less TikTok
Travel guides have a responsibility to go deeper than they often do
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February 2025

A guide to expanding the types of wine you drink
For those of you who always pick up the same old bottles
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Wine Conversations: It’s Not Easy Being Green (V)
Organic, biodynamic and sustainable certifications are great but they are not the only way to identify low-intervention wines
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The kid-at-Christmas-like anticipation of eating seasonally
And two recipes for a "green course" designed to get you eating seasonal greens
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10 wines that prove we should all drink more Galician wine
Spain's north-west winemaking region is where to find the good stuff
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What the Galician city of A Coruña made me think about Spanish wine and food culture
And not for the first time
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Could Natural Wine Ever Be Appropriated by The Far Right?
Or: thoughts that keep me up at night
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