Month: November 2022

For the grump, the snark and the sulky drinker in your life. I’m not sure how or when wine snarkiness started. Retro images overlaid with coy references to drinking have been around since the early 2000s, followed by the ubiquitous someecards in which irreverent drinking was a common theme, circulating the Internet circa 2006. Last
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Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The secret ingredient in vegan chocolate brand Mid-Day Squares is viral content. The 29-year-old CEO and cofounder, Jake Karls, along with his sister and brother-in-law cofounders, Lezlie Karls and Nick Saltarelli, star in TikTok, Instagram and YouTube videos, sharing the behind-the-scenes entrepreneurial drama. “We give customers
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Ischgl has a wide choice of smart hotels – more than is usual in an Austrian resort. However, prices tend to be higher than in the Tirolean heartland of the Kitzbüheler Alps with which Britons are more familiar. The most convenient places to stay are near, but not on, the main street, away from late-night
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Baby, it’s cold outside—but that doesn’t mean you have to stay indoors. From bobsledding like an Olympian to viewing the Northern Lights, here are 10 destinations to hit before the snow melts. Snowstorms used to mean long days spent making snow angels and having snowball fights followed by big mugs of hot cocoa topped with
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Buckle your seat belts because from Thanksgiving ‘til end of year, there is no holiday, fake holiday or shopping day too ridiculous for wine pairings. And, just exactly what kind of wine goes with Cyber Monday? I can’t purport to tell you that—I mean what do you pair with a 200-inch Smart TV? Or a
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Expert guide to Alpe d’Huez Overview Hotels Restaurants Après ski Snow reports Most people visiting Alpe d’Huez stay in self-catering apartments, though there are some chalets and luxurious hotels available, as well as a Club Med resort. The resort village is split into eight small districts, or quartiers, with the Cognet quartier close to both
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Few resorts in the Alps match Alpe d’Huez for its suitability for skiers and snowboarders at both ends of the skills graph, as well as in the middle. The terrain here is as well suited to experts as it is to beginners, while confident intermediates will have a ball. Alpe d’Huez has grown spectacularly in stature since Polish engineer Jean
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Oxford Street – two words that bring instant joy or instant dismay depending, most likely, on your tolerance levels for shopping. However, this Mecca to retail that takes you from Marble Arch (and with it access to Hyde Park) right down to Tottenham Court Road (via Bond Street and Oxford Circus), is like a central vein
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Bourbon is awesome. It is distinctly American. It is full of flavor. And despite its historic popularity, it remains among the most affordable styles of whiskey on the planet. In fact, as any self-avowed expert will tell you sans solicitation, the best bourbons are often the most reasonably-priced ones. I’ll prove it through the exceptional
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