He Who Controls the Spice Controls the Universe

Picture yourself at a German holiday market (if such things were happening in 2020) — a mug of glühwein in hand and the scent of…
Picture yourself at a German holiday market (if such things were happening in 2020) — a mug of glühwein in hand and the scent of…
Carrie Dykes is a freelance wine and travel writer residing in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Her work appears in Wine Enthusiast, SevenFifty Daily, Lonely Planet, Chronogram, and many other publications. She loves finding treasures on forest floors and thrift stores, and vacillates between wanting to live a nomadic life of exploration and getting a bunch of chickens and alpaca and starting a one-acre farm. Follow her adventures along with her husband, son, former Brooklyn-street-cat—Marzipan, and crazy Border Collie—Chippy Cheppy
Wine regions are threaded along the Danube, one after another, like a string of Chanel pearls. Wagram, Kamptal, Kremstal, Wachau. And Traisental — the only…...
The Mosel, Germany’s oldest winegrowing region, knows how to beguile. The Rheingau swathes itself in the trappings of nobility, Baden boasts of its sunshine, the…...
Confession time: Which wine and food pairings make your eyes roll faster than a teenager’s? Champagne and strawberries? Pizza and Lambrusco? Muscadet and oysters? In…...
These days, when I discover a new wine producer, it usually happens at a restaurant. I turn the bottle around, read the information on the…...
On an early autumn night, in a quietly insiderish neighborhood of Queens, New York, deep beats and warping, hypnotic sound penetrate the stillness. Trapezoids of light slant…...
The photos that German astronaut Alexander Gerst sent back from the International Space Station during summer 2018 were deeply shocking: Germany was no longer green,…...
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