Piper's Archive

  • Nostalgia Beat: Tuna

    Nostalgia Beat: Tuna

    Tuna is a crazy overfished…fish.  It’s enormous.  Way bigger than the little tin can or convenient foil pouch you scratch...

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  • Chinato

    Chinato

    “Zack Bruell be my boyfriend, are you married?” “I want to be best friends with lardo.” These were the one-liners rolling off...

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  • Beer School: The Results

    Beer School: The Results

    When I joined Ratebeer.com over a year ago, one of the first things I learned was that many more styles...

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  • Beer School: The Brewing Process

    Beer School: The Brewing Process

    Every brewer starts with 4 ingredients: water, hops, barley and yeast.  Yeast is weird, gross but also kind of magical...

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  • Beer School: The Harvest

    Beer School: The Harvest

    After a full year of blogging about beer and food, I’ve realized that perhaps not everyone reading this blog is...

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  • Drool Worthy

    Drool Worthy

    Between the Travel Channel, TLC and the Food Network, I don’t know which channel to blame for making me ravenously...

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  • Victor Churchill

    Victor Churchill

    I’m not the first and certainly not the last person to write about Victor Churchill.  I found out about this spot...

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  • If I Should Die Before I Wake

    If I Should Die Before I Wake

    I’d be super pissed because I have just turned 22 and I wouldn’t be able to have my favorite breakfast...

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  • DarkWing Duck

    DarkWing Duck

    I spent some time over spring break in West Side Market up in Cleveland where I got my hot little...

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  • The Cove: A Practice in Review

    The Cove: A Practice in Review

    When The Cove won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, the first thing I thought of when I heard the...

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