Tropical Trinity
Rum. For many, just the word alone evokes images of a certain swashbuckling captain or perhaps sickly sweet frozen concoctions with faux-tropical names and plastic, sword-shaped cocktail sticks.
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Finger Lickin’
Street food culture exists all over the world because wherever there are people on the go, they’ll be eager for fast, tasty nourishment.
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French Connection
Nico Gourdon was raised with hospitality. From an early age, he traveled throughout Europe with his family and was captivated by the world of fine dining, professional service, and beautiful spaces.
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Nicaraguan Chop Suey
Inside a warm, yellow-toned home decorated with red lanterns, gold tassels, and a large Buddha, Marian Jimenez and her mother prepare for one of their favorite weekend rituals: cooking Nicaraguan dishes.
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Seafood Delights
Latinos who observe Catholicism, and their relatives and friends who don’t, usually spend the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday abstaining from red meat for the entire season of Lent — or just on Fridays.
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Rising From the Ashes
When the Dixie Fire leveled the quaint town of Greenville, Calif., in 2021, it wasn’t only homes that were lost; many of the area’s businesses also were destroyed.
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Wild West
Nevada’s oldest town is the perfect place to celebrate the state’s heritage. For the fifth year, the Genoa Western Heritage Days event is back for three days of Silver State fun in April.
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Not Business as Usual
The largest byproduct of the brewery process is spent grain, and most breweries today divert spent grains to farms for animal feed or to composting facilities.
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Pizza Our Hearts
Pablo Puluke Giet has baked himself into a niche. Operating under the business name Von Pablo, Giet is a certified German master baker based in Truckee.
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Drinks To Go, Sustainably
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Gone are the days of Styrofoam cups and plastic lids containing our beverages of choice for the road. The folks at Coffeebar (in Reno-Tahoe and the Bay Area) now offer a new option to decrease the devastating disposable cup carbon footprint, thanks to a partnership with OKAPI Reusables.
