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UWISHUNU.com- 9.28.10

Kennett Square Fermentation Festival This Friday Lovers of all thing fermented should make a point to head out to Kennett Square this Friday. On Friday from 2-7 p.m., the second annual Fermentation Festival will take place in conjunction with the town’s regular farmers’ market. There will be sauerkraut and vegetable fermentation demonstrations, as well as [...]

One Recipe at a Time- 9.24.10

Oh Snap!Today marks a pretty important day in my family. I just want to take a minute to wish my DAD a very happy birthday! Unfortunately I can’t be at home in Connecticut this weekend to celebrate with him, but I was able to spend a few days back at home last weekend and we got [...]

Playboy Magazine- 10.1.10

Snap Pops Oh, Snap! Taking inspiration from a Pennsylvania Dutch recipe dating back to the 1600′s, Snap ($33, artintheage.com)- a new 100 percent organic spirit that borrows its flavor from lebkuchen (gingersnap, more or less)- could be your elixir for autumnal nights. Invented by Steven Grasse, a former Quaker State ad guru who’s returned to [...]

ServedRaw.com – 9.21.10

 Cocktails for Insomniacs This drink, code-named “The Sleepwalker’s Delight,” is of particular interest to those who, instead of sleeping, find themselves walking the floors at all hours of the night.  It’s an easy cocktail to make, especially when sleepwalking. Many of the ingredients hail to Europe, where meanderings in the nighttime are less suspect.  You [...]

The Narragansett Beer Blog-9.22.10

The “Rosella Rush” Takes First Place at the 2010 SNAP Cocktail Competition This past Monday, September 13th, Art in the Age SNAP sponsored a cocktail competition featuring bartenders from 16 local Philadelphia restaurants competing for the best original SNAP cocktail. The competition took place on Liberties Walk in Northern Liberties, and it was the perfect [...]

Chester County Dwell- 9.22.10

Taste Test: SNAP Autumn kicks off this week. To celebrate, I toasted the season with SNAP, a warm and earthy, new organic spirit from the makers of ROOT.SNAP gets its name from the Pennsylvania Dutch’s ginger snap, or lebkuchen­–a traditional German biscuit resembling gingerbread–and is based on a recipe dating back to the late 1600s.Back then refined [...]