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The Best That I Can

The Best Things I Wrote This Year

The Best Things I Read, Watched and Listened To This Year

The Best Things I Drank This Year

The Best Things I Ate This Year

Anything Can be a Tradition

COCKTAIL: The Columbus Avenue

The Time Has Come for Me to Cash in with a Money-Printing Christmas Song

Let's make it through December

RECIPE: Borscht(ish)

COCKTAIL: The Godfather, Part II

An Interview with the Grinch's Brother, Martin Grinch

There's No Party Like a Cookie Party

Time Travel is Easy

What To Get Everyone *Else* In Your Life

It's not too late to play your part at Thanksgiving

COCKTAIL: The Kids' Table, Part Deux

Bring Something to the Table

Taking Back Thursday

RECIPE: Charcuterie Board Salad

COCKTAIL: The Dapper Doofus

The Hardest Thing To Do Is To Just Be Yourself

Runnin' Down That Hill

Takeoffs and Landings

RECIPE: Cod with Chorizo, Kale and Gnocchi

COCKTAIL: Widow's Kiss

Kitchen Lessons I Wish I'd Learned Sooner

The Farewell

I Won't Fall Back

RECIPE: Crispy Cheese Breakfast Tacos

DRINK: AC's Fall Spice Latte

ACBN: Wednesday, November 1st

What's your favorite book?

The 'Price Is Right' Theory of Sandwich Construction

RECIPE: The Fall Classic Sandwich

COCKTAIL: Candy Corn Old-Fashioned

There's more to Trick-or-Treat than just candy

Now is the Time of Monsters

Nothing a bunch of onions and butter can't fix

RECIPE: Haluski

COCKTAIL: Czech Old-Fashioned

Nobody tell the taters

It's so hard to say goodbye (in a email)

Chili Cookoff Chaos Theory

RECIPE: Heretic's Chili

COCKTAIL: Apple Brandy Negroni

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Every Pumpkin Has Its Day

F**k It, I'm Making Soup

RECIPE: Artichoke Lasagna Soup

COCKTAIL: The Saratoga

Heroes don't have to add up

When You Say Nothing At All

I Took For Granted Every Saturday Night

RECIPE: AC's Chopped Sub

COCKTAIL: Watch Your Mouth

Off My Gourd

It's Spirit Week!

It's Fancy Farm Friday, friends

RECIPE: Pork Chops with Sauce Charcutière

COCKTAIL: Bobby Burns

It's not *just* the Roman Empire.

He's Been Everywhere, Man

One Month at a Time

RECIPE: Sped-up Sauerbraten

COCKTAIL: Hard Cherry Limeade

"The only thing that's fake is the outcome."

A Brief Message on an Important Cause

One day's a bowl full of cherries...

RECIPE: Cherry Bounce + Campfire Pies

COCKTAIL: Cherry Bounce Sour

Dog Years

Coming Home

RECIPE: Gochujang-Honey "Bear Claw" Chicken Sandwich

COCKTAIL: The Footloose

The Mysterious Voyage of Captain Sandwich

What's this worth?

Here's to a Productive Saturday

RECIPE: Fiestada Pizza 2.0

COCKTAIL: The Benny Spritz

A College Football Preview by a Student Who Just Returned From Studying Abroad

A Dispatch from the Great Outdoors

A Fair Shake

RECIPE: Kentuckiana Hot Loin on a Stick

COCKTAIL: Ohio River Iced Tea

Rise of the Machines

The Chase for a Culinary Supervillain Continues

Let's all go to the market

RECIPE: Hatch Chile Meatball Sliders

COCKTAIL: The Garden Party

A Wishlist for the First Day of School

Weeds

August: Action Cookbook

RECIPE: Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Salad with Strawberry-Balsamic Vinaigrette

COCKTAIL: The Surprise Lily, revisited

Return to Sender

Billions and Billions

The Lion's Share

RECIPE: Ham Salad

DRINK: Thyme Lemonade

There Are No Stupid Questions

Summer Reading

Summer Hours

RECIPE: Grilled Watermelon Gazpacho

COCKTAIL: Grilled Grapefruit Paloma

The Lost City

Calling All Food Detectives

Storm the Weekend with the ACBN

RECIPE: French Tacos

COCKTAIL: Peach-Basil Cooler

Take your own advice

Find your people

The greatest thing since sliced bread

RECIPE: Greek Seven-Layer Dip

COCKTAIL: A History of Violets

You know what this town needs?

July 3rd open thread: Whatcha cookin' this week?

We're Throwing It Deep

RECIPE: Mushroom-Olive Tapenade

COCKTAIL: The Irish Maid

The Dream-Seller

Let's Go Exploring

Let's Make This Summer a Blockbuster

RECIPE: Smashed-Potato Salade Niçoise

COCKTAIL: Classic Aperol Spritz

It Was Never Just About the Books

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Gone Fishin'

Find a Way to Make Yourself Useful

Around the Sun

RECIPE: Michelada Carne Asada

COCKTAIL: Watermelon-Mint Agua Fresca

Here's some other brands that should also take the "MAX" approach

Better pack a lunch

The universal urge to make a Big Stupid Sandwich

RECIPE: Bocadillo de Tortilla with Chorizo Spread

COCKTAIL: The Tiki Torch

Heroes and villains

False vacuum decay

The ACBN Class Pizza Party

RECIPE: Cheeseburger Pizza, Cajun Pizza

COCKTAIL: The Part-Time Lover

To the Graduating Class of 2023...

Here's to the Cookbooks I Don't Actually Cook From

All the King's Horses

RECIPE: Coronation Chicken and Waffles

COCKTAIL: The Triple Crown

No Laughing Matter: The True Story of the Hollywood Blockbuster That Never Was

Let's talk about our problematic faves

Not a wheel, it's a carousel, etc.

RECIPE: Perfect Chicken Noodle Soup

COCKTAIL: The Brooklyn

Things I Doodle While on a Conference Call That Could've Been an Email

"I have a question... "

It's Always Friday at the ACBN

RECIPE: Grilled Chicken Caprese with Strawberry-Balsamic Glaze

COCKTAIL: Strawberry-Balsamic Bourbon Basil Smash

The Postman Always Rings Twice

I'm Mailing It In Today

We're Rollin' Out

RECIPE: Michigan-style Olive Burgers

COCKTAIL: The Lunchbox

This is What It's Like To Live in America

A Geography Lesson

They're all good Fridays, Brent

RECIPE: Croque Monsieur

COCKTAIL: Tequila Old-Fashioned

Space and Time

Come On, Knock On Our Door

I Don't Care If I Ever Get Back

RECIPE: The Doubleday Dog

COCKTAIL: The Two-Finger Fastball

Lou's Your Own Adventure

On Perspective and Perception

Keep Their Heads Springin'

RECIPE: Assyrian Spaghetti

COCKTAIL: The Yellowjacket

I Am Once Again Starting a Skyline Argument

There's Still Time

Coming Out of the Ground

RECIPE: Smoky, Sweet and Savory Beef Tacos

COCKTAIL: The Irish Goodbye

The Special

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cookbook

It's Morning in Flavortown Again

RECIPE: Breakfast Fried Rice

COCKTAIL: The Wake-Up Call

Here Are Ten Kinds of Famous I Would Be Okay With Being

Bread Knows If You're Full of Sh*t

I Come to Praise the Irrational Exuberance of March

RECIPE: Hearty, Smoky Lentil Soup

COCKTAIL: The Slightly-Dirty Martini

She's Still Running

A Trip Down to the Water

You've Got to Slop It Up

RECIPE: Sloppy Julias

COCKTAIL: Chocolate Boulevardier

Here's to giving up

Confessions of a Pinewood Derby Dad

Laissez les bons temps rouler, things of that nature

RECIPE: Crawfish Étouffée

COCKTAIL: You're A Daisy If You Do

How to Fail Every Day

Everything Will Change: 'Give Up' at 20

Is Going to the Super Bowl any fun?

RECIPE: Bacon Tots

COCKTAIL: The Arizona

Reliable Recipes, Famous Fights and Life's Little Luxuries: it's an ACBN Mailbag!

I Found a Dozen Missing Verses From The Rembrandts' "I'll Be There For You" (The Theme From 'Friends')

Whoa, we're halfway there / WHOA-OH- [holds out microphone]

RECIPE: Romesco-Style Tomato Soup

COCKTAIL: The Rattlesnake

Sports! *HUHH* (Good god, Y'all!) What are they good for?

Ode to a lunch salad

This Is When Legends Are Made

COCKTAIL: The Bengal Tiger

RECIPE: Buffalo Chicken Bombs

These things don't belong here

Scenes From a Bourbon Tasting

The First Mile is Always the Longest

RECIPE: Patatas Bravas

COCKTAIL: The Diplomat

How do you get unstuck?

The Lucky Penny

Friday? Unlucky? I won't hear of it.

RECIPE: Corn and Potato Chowder with Bacon

COCKTAIL: The "Hoot Mon"

What is it about a sandwich?

What we talk about when we talk about Mario

Here We Go Again

RECIPE: Achiote-Citrus-Umami Chicken

COCKTAIL: It’s Been So Long Since I’ve Seen the Ocean (I Guess I Should)

What's good?

Welcome to the new year! [drip]