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The Beer Lover's Table: Vegetarian Keema and Baron Brewing Culprit New England IPA

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The Beer Lover's Table: Vegetarian Keema and Baron Brewing Culprit New England IPA

Back in university, I was lucky enough to room with my friend Sarah, who wasn’t just an all-round lovely human but also a talented cook and baker. One of her signature dishes was keema, a minced lamb or beef dish prepared as a curry, amply spiced and endlessly comforting. I loved it so much that it soon became a running joke between us. Since then, Sarah has shared various keema tips with me. Just a few weeks ago, a new message popped up that simply read: “New favourite keema recipe” and included a link to a recipe for “dhaba-style keema”. She noted...

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The Beer Lover’s Table: Falafel Pita Sandwiches & Abbeydale Brewery Huckster NEIPA

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The Beer Lover’s Table: Falafel Pita Sandwiches & Abbeydale Brewery Huckster NEIPA

Late last year, while sheltering from a Philadelphia snowstorm, I ate the best falafel of my life. Incongruous, but true. The setting was Goldie — a restaurant which is owned by the Michelin-starred chef Michael Solomonov, but which itself is humble and small, easy enough to walk by without noticing. At Goldie, the falafel were only $7 and came tucked inside a still-warm pita, complete with all the fixings. They weren’t the dried hockey pucks that lurk in so many sorry wraps — instead, these falafel were light, airy, vividly green on the inside and shatteringly crisp of skin. I’ve...

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Fundamentals #23 — Black Iris Let The Juice Loose NEIPA

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Fundamentals #23 — Black Iris Let The Juice Loose NEIPA

People say you can have too much of a good thing. That less is, in fact, more. Undoubtedly, there are many walks of life where this is true. Say for example if you spend less time working on that Excel spreadsheet or playing badminton, then you can spend more time down the pub, enjoying great beer. Or perhaps in the construction of a great pilsner, where the subtlety of pale malt playfully mingles with the nuance of noble hops, leading to a finished product that is perhaps greater than the sum of its parts. Life would be boring if all...

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