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gribwrites.bsky.social
Food, beer, and travel writer. Connecticut Magazine, CTBites, Fodor's Travel, and anywhere else they'll let me. Connecticut-based, but I eat it all. What's on tap?
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Powder Hollow, CT

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AND HERE IT IS, the reason I went looking: c.o.jones is back, in tequila form. www.ctbites.com/blog/2025/2/...

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Oddly, I was just reading a short story on this phenomenon last night. It was published in 2007. www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag....

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RIP to an actual fuckin legend

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Sappho pils. Caius Farm Brewery, Northford, CT, & calamari and broccolini, Wildcat, Hamden.

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Me, (March, Connecticut Magazine), when I wrote this in November. And me, tonight.

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Remember that brewery you wanted to visit? It's beautiful out, it's Friday: DO IT!

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Irish Exit - Two Roads Irish Cream Porter - Zero Gravity Mo Chara (Irish red, but still) - Banded

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Works with or without leftover pizza.

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Danny's may have the first place I ate solid food. PizzaCo made the best buffalo chicken pizza I've had. Walrus&Carpenter was a legendary hangout. I think about these places daily. This being an actual assignment was just a bonus. www.ctinsider.com/food/article...

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What in the blue hell is going on in Puyallup

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Two Roads Fire&Ice festival

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Danny's may have the first place I ate solid food. PizzaCo made the best buffalo chicken pizza I've had. Walrus&Carpenter was a legendary hangout. I think about these places daily. This being an actual assignment was just a bonus. www.ctinsider.com/food/article...

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I'll have a nostalgic piece published across the Hearst papers in Connecticut this weekend, and it gave me an excuse to re-read something I wrote about a little garage called PizzaCo, across from Two Roads Brewery, many moons ago. #foodsky www.ctbites.com/blog/2017/3/...

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I would like to make a mission statement based on these marrow-dripped tacos. (via: unsplash.com/photos/0p_E9...)

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@edsbs.bsky.social If you get a chance, I'd recommend Bringing Columbia Home:

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Found an artifact

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OK this is flawless

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Put me down for the British colichmarde, a dirk, the satyr candlestick holder, and the Chinese water pipe. I’m good for it.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

You have my attention

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Big fan of Weird Duck Season around here.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

still laughing at the array of skill players on the field who all got upstaged by the Eagles defensive line deciding it was ogre party time

submitted 23 days ago • 38 comments

I wrote a bit about a new favorite spot which opened in 2024. #foodsky

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A while back I wrote about a new kind of Italian restaurant opening on New Haven's famous Wooster St. Tonight I'll have a preview of something JUUUST a bit different on the way. Keep an eye out. #foodsky www.ctbites.com/blog/2023/9/...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Hazelnut croissant and cappuccino at G Cafe, #NewHaven, #Connecticut. It was filled with a sort of Nutella mousse. #foodsky

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My latest for CTBites came to me in a dream. About food. Of course. The history of the banh mi, and some recs if you're ever in Connecticut. #foodsky www.ctbites.com/blog/2025/1/...

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My latest for the January Connecticut Magazine is on Milford, CT's Cafe Melba. Superior neighborhood dining, but only a few days/week, so both you and the chef can take it easy: #Connecticut #foodsky [tip: use Reader View, if your browser has it] www.ctinsider.com/food/article...

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Waiting for friends to be ready, killing time by attempting banana chocolate chip bread.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Heads up #Connecticut! If you’d like to help with the fires in Los Angeles but don’t know where to start, we’ve pulled together some opportunities. Spread the ❤️ #foodsky www.ctbites.com/blog/2025/1/...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Price: $11 Outside temp: 26º Every time I have pho I feel like I'm doing something right with my life. #foodsky

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Here it is, our Top Eats of 2024 from the staff at CTBites! I *may* have been out of MS Office range and had to text in my picks this year instead of my draft in Word, but HERE WE GO: #foodsky www.ctbites.com/blog/2024/12...

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"I should make minestrone." giadzy.com/blogs/recipe...

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My first book, via Fodors Travel! I wrote the Connecticut chapter, and wish it could have been 10x longer… #BookSky #beersky #brewing

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

It occurs to me I should probably mention my food writing every now and again, since... that's kind of the point here. SO! I went to the new Strega in New Haven, and w o w. Read on: www.ctbites.com/blog/2024/11...

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Well, well, well - look who's back in the sky again.

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