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Tag Archives: Food
Fromage of the Day is Back!!
For several years, roughly 2009-2014, I wrote a near daily post celebrating the wonderful world of cheese available in New York. Now that I’ve returned to the cheese business, I’ve resumed the posts. They are at https://thejoyofcheese.wordpress.com/
Catching Up 08/15/21
It’s been a busy summer. Seven weeks ago, I moved from Prospect Lefferts Gardens in Brooklyn to Sugar Hill in Manhattan. The emblematic moment of the year happened during the move. My inbox was already full and in the Uber … Continue reading
Meanwhile at the Other Blogs 01.10.20
Most of my writing gets posted here but not all of it. My music blogging and any piece published in the Wall Street Journal, Vine Pair or (soon) Jazz Times gets highlighted here. However, I also write about gender, middle … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, culinary, fitness, Food, Gender, Jazz, Life in the 50s, Politics, race, The Do Over, Uncategorized
Tagged Blogging, Food, Foodie, gender, Life, Middle Age, NYC, The New Middle Age
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At VinePair on Pilsners
Pilsners Are an Elegant Outlier to the Craft Beer Hype Machine words: MARTIN JOHNSON Pilsners have one of the most dynamic backstories in beer. The style was developed in the Czech village of Pilsen in the first half of the 19th … Continue reading
Posted in culinary, Food, Life in the 50s, Uncategorized
Tagged craft beer, Food, Foodie, Grimm Ales, NYC, Oxbow, PIlsners, Threes
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Fromage of the Day, Collected
For about five years, approximately 2009-2014, I did a regular blog post called Fromage of the Day where I introduced and paired a cheese then I compared it to a cultural touchstone. Here’s a grouping of them. https://thejoyofcheese.wordpress.com/?s=Fromage+of+the+Day
At VinePair on Craft Beer and Cheese
This isn’t your usual what IPA to put with Stilton sort of piece. The Craft Beer and Cheese Businesses Have a Lot in Common, But Only One Is Surging words: MARTIN JOHNSON illustration: DANIELLE GRINBERG On a blustery, wintry day in … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Uncategorized
Tagged business, cheese, craft beer, Food, Foodie, Other Half
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From the Archives, Three WSJ Stories on Craft Beer in NYC
In 2014, I had the amazing good fortune to write about the then nascent (now burgeoning) craft beer scene for an amazing editor at an amazing outlet. These are those stories. When I’m not in the food biz, I work … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, culinary, Food, Life in the 50s, Media, Uncategorized
Tagged craft beer, Food, Foodie, NYC, Rising Businesses
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Life on Aisle 2: This is What Plan C Looks Like, Episode 15. Friday Night Lights
Aisle 2, Episode 15. Sometimes I think work is my religion. Sometimes I think determination is. Here is it at Medium https://medium.com/@martinjohnson_76387/life-on-aisle-2-episode-15-friday-night-lights-b0ec5926b9d0
Posted in Archives, culinary, Food, Gender, Life in the 50s, Media, Music, Uncategorized
Tagged Blogging, Class Mobility, craft beer, Food, Life, Middle Age, relationships, retail, The New Middle Age, Work
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Life on Aisle 2: This is What Plan C Looks Like, Episode 12 On the Fringe
The Retail blog continues. https://medium.com/@martinjohnson_76387/life-on-aisle-2-this-is-what-plan-c-looks-like-episode-12-on-the-fringe-a4b6cc9308ea
Posted in Arts, culinary, Food, Gender, Media, Politics, race, Uncategorized
Tagged culinary, East Village, Food, Foodie, NYC, race
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