This worldly take on the granddaddy of cocktails, the Old-Fashioned, is actually rather new-fashioned when you get right down to it.
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First Course: Your Month in Food, Illustrated
1. Crawfish Visit the Third Annual 6th St. Crawfish Boil at Rebel Kettle in Little Rock (featuring The Faded Rose and three times the crawfish as last year!) March 31 | (facebook.com/rebelkettle) 2. King Cake House-made from Will’s Cinnamon Shop in Hot Springs if you wanna go local, Gambino’s Bakery-sourced praline cakes from Legacy Wine…
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Your Best-Laid Plans
Making short work of the First Ever 16th Annual World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
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Cork Dork: Why I Drink
IT’S A QUESTION that I get asked often enough that you would think I’d have a go-to answer. In truth, I have several, but Well, it gets me drunk, isn’t the answer my mother likes me to give at family reunions. The real answer, my truest one, has been a hard thing to pin down…
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First Taste: Williams Soul Food
“It’s a Wednesday evening, and I’m making my way to the reopening of Williams Soul Food in Bentonville. Given that fried chicken is the restaurant’s specialty, and fried chicken is my what-I-would-eat-for-my-last-meal meal, I’m pretty fired up. But I’m also disappointed …”
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Hometown: The Heart of Paragould
MY TWO best friends and I are headed almost as northeast as you can get without leaving the state of Arkansas—to Paragould, population 28,488. Before the three of us even get to the city limits, we see three signs that make us think the town’s going to be a blast: The Party Store Liquor Shop…
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Cork Dork: Sommel-what?
The task seemed simple enough at face value: Serve Champagne to a table of six in a mock restaurant situation while undergoing an oral exam covering wine, cocktails, spirits and food pairings. In practice, of course, nothing about the situation was easy.
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First Taste: Dos Rocas Beer & Tacos
First Taste: Oliver’s Bistro
What’s On Our Plate: It’s Donuts.
