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Ben Calais

Ben Calais of Calais Winery doesn’t particularly care what you think, as long as you think it while drinking his cabernet/merlot/malbec/cabernet franc blend, the 2013 La Cuvee d’Elme. ...

Hops & Grain

The process of brewing beer begins early at Hops & Grain craft brewery. Even before the sun rises, brewer Danny Clay has already measured out the grain for his long-standing recipe, then milled ...

Kelly Railean

Kelly Railean is a woman with a mission. Her official goal is “Restoring American Rum,” and since 2005, she’s been doing just that at Railean Eagle Point Distillery in the tiny ...

The Happiness Business

by Rhea Maze Two groggy college buddies hop from one train to the next, heading south in the middle of the night, determined to escape Germany’s frigid temperatures. As the cars chug along ...

Health Bar on a Mission

While traveling around Southeast Asia in 2007, Joey Grassia was shocked and unsettled by the hunger and poverty he encountered. “I saw a lot of children living in makeshift homes that they ...

Growing at the Thinkery

On a recent visit to the Thinkery—the new Austin Children’s Museum—four-year-old Elyse Kleinpeter used a hair dryer to discern the fat content in several types of food, from apples ...

By Shelly SealePhotography by Allison Narro As a Korean-American woman who makes kimchi for a living, Abigail Lunde admits that the fermented Korean side dish made with a variety of vegetables and ...

Grow Dat

by Max Elliott Walking along the edge of the Grow Dat Youth Farm in New Orleans, Urban Roots youth intern Madison Mathews pauses by a green pond lined with bald cypress trees and asks, “Are ...

Ice Ice, Baby

How do you elevate a three-ingredient cocktail to the point that it becomes a craft-beverage experience? With such fastidious attention to detail that even its cubes of ice are a deliberate and ...

Back to the Land

In 1998, after nearly two decades of wandering—first on tours of the Far East and California with the Marine Corps, and then via long-haul trucking throughout the Lower 48 and Canada—Bob ...