Julia Child’s Roast Chicken Fixed My Broken Heart | Kitchn

Vadim rolled his own cigarettes. He had broad shoulders, six-pack abs, and a chest tattoo that read "Rock & Roll." He was the lead singer in a rockabilly band and had a hot rod he planned to fix up. I met him when I took a part-time job as a cashier at Savenor's Market, a specialty foods shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was the head butcher.

Yeah, butcher. Hot, right?

Read Water for Chefs—David McMillan, Joe Beef on ChefsFeed

Chef David McMillan needs no introduction, but let's give him one anyway. Joe Beef, Liverpool House, Le Vin Papillon. Foie gras, ice fishing, all of the offal. Taxidermy, tattoos, whole pig heads. Oysters. Burgundy. Game fowl. Cheese for days. Deep Québécois pride.  

This guy. This guy is everyone’s Chef. Lucky for us, this guy also loves wine. This guy loves love. “Drink healthy beverages made from grapes,” he says. “Eat clean. Love everyone. Be a good person. Fight pedigree and pretense. We love you." 

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EVAN LEWANDOWSKI IS A REALLY LIKABLE GUY MAKING REALLY LIKABLE WINE.  

He hails from Wichita, Kansas. He’s in his early thirties. He’s what most would call religious, but he uses the word "spiritual." He resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he moved to attend the University of Utah in 2001, not so much to go to college, but to ski. He probably wouldn’t have ended up in Utah if the Winter Olympics hadn’t been scheduled there for 2002, alerting his high school guidance counselor to the city’s existence. He applied and was accepted without even visiting the campus.  

Fifteen years after college, he’s still in Utah, making wine in a tiny urban winery. He estimates that 99.2% of the wine he produces is made from grapes he harvests in California. After every harvest, he leads a small caravan containing the pressed juice and grapes across Nevada back to Salt Lake City to finish. Despite this, he won’t move to California to make wine. This is strictly because he loves Utah so much. If all goes accordingly, he’ll plant his own vineyard there in the spring of 2017. He has big plans for Utah wine.  

The name of Evan’s winery project is Ruth Lewandowski Wines.  

Ruth Lewandowski doesn’t exist.  

Privateer Rum and Maggie Campbell's Rise to Distilling Stardom - Thrillist

There was a time when Maggie Campbell almost quit distilling. It was just a few years ago, when the award-winning head distiller and vice president at Privateer Rum thought being a woman might be an insurmountable obstacle in her pursuit of doing what she wanted to do: make spirits, and make them well. Despite unrivaled experience and stacks of recommendations, Campbell's search for a distillery that would let her do what she did best was marked by deafening radio silence. "I thought I was doing something wrong," she says...