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About Louise McCready

When freelance food writer and Huffington Post contributor Louise McCready is not out tasting article topics, she can be found scouring local markets, testing new recipes and dreaming of her future goat farm.

Recent Posts by Louise McCready

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The New Spice Trade Route Ends at Junoon

1 comment | September 3, 2012 | By | Photographs by Julie Glassberg

While wholesalers might offer everything from fenugreek to whole turmeric, Junoon chef Vikas Khanna doesn’t settle for other people’s imports. He travels to India himself every month or two, bringing back as many spices as he can carry.

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Label of Love

Comment | January 10, 2011 | By

A line of wines you can judge by the cover.
Wine labels are like book covers: Few admit to considering the design—but everyone does. (The 22 members of the Facebook group “I choose wine based solely on a quirky name…

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Dale DeGroff

2 comments so far | By | Photographs by Carolyn Fong

Mixing with a master.
Dale DeGroff is the undisputed patriarch of the recent cocktail renaissance. Author of The Craft of the Cocktail and The Essential Cocktail; founder of the Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans and consultant to…

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