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When you’re moving through the wilderness, having the right gear helps keep your mind and body free to experience nature without unnecessary distractions. As the foundation of your gear, a comfortable, technically sound pair of hiking boots can set you up for an experience to remember. Our team has years of experience hiking and backpacking through a wide range of landscapes, and we’ve become quite picky when it comes to finding the best hiking boots. We’re especially keen on boots that maximize comfort while meeting technical requirements to help keep your mind on the objective at hand. Through the testing process, we...

You are just 4 steps and mere minutes away from a big delicious pan of Chicken Taco Rice Casserole! Stir the ingredients together, spread in a 9×13 baking dish, bake, and serve – it’s THAT easy. Taco Rice Casserole Recipe HOWDY! CHEF ALLI HERE. LET’S GET YOU COOKIN’…. SHALL WE??  So who’s up for a tasty taco casserole that can be made in a flat minute?? I know I am. We love all things Mexican in this household, trust me. From Big Bold Beef Carnitas (made in my Instant Pot) to Low-Carb Taco Pie, to Chicken and Black Bean Enchiladas, we...

KG BBQ Brings Cairo’s Bright Mediterranean Flavors to Austin’s Barbecue Scene Pitmaster Kareem El-Ghayesh’s first bite of Texan brisket turned into a decade-long obsession with barbecue. Now, his food truck serves up a surprising, singularly Egyptian take on the art of smoked meat By Jillian Anthony Photos courtesy of KG BBQ Do you remember the first time you tasted barbecue? KG BBQ owner and pitmaster Kareem El-Ghayesh does. It was back in 2012 at Rudy’s Bar-B-Que in Austin, Texas, during his first visit to the United States.  “It was a life-changing experience,” El-Ghayesh, 35, says of the first time he...

The idea started percolating roughly five years ago, when chef and one-time Charlie Trotter protégé Andrea Abedi took a look around Santa Fe’s culinary landscape and couldn’t find a meaningful or even particularly helpful commercial kitchen at the scale she wanted and needed.Abedi’s business, The Temptress, was growing, but when you’re working as a private chef in Santa Fe, she says, you’re most often using kitchens inside people’s homes. When you’re working on building and scaling a business with no storefront or specific home base, however, good luck. While Albuquerque and Taos boasted commercial kitchens of one size or another,...

A class-action lawsuit spurred by former Saanich grocery store employees will proceed against the assistant manager who secretly filmed them in the bathroom, and against the local grocer franchise. The suit targets the actions of Matthew Charles Schwabe, while another defendant is the Red Barn at Mattick, which the plaintiffs say is “vicariously liable” for enabling and participating in a toxic and misogynist workplace. Justice Brian MacKenzie’s March 13 decision certified the case as a class-action suit, which could include around 13 plaintiffs, according to their lawyer Sean Hern. Schwabe was sentenced to 15 months in jail in November 2021...