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Airstream Hotels

Have you heard that Sunset has a massive love affair with Airstreams? If you couldn’t tell from the May cover, well, we do. And while we imagine a world of endless summers and Airstreams for everyone, the reality is we can’t all have a silvery bullet proudly parked in our driveway. Lucky for us, there’s a new crop of quirky Airstream hotels that have all the romance of the open road, with none of the heavy towing.

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Is 2013 the Year of the Yak?

Grass-finished beef is so 2012. And don’t even get me started on buffalo. Yak is where it’s at. I live in Colorado and, because it’s the way I roll, I have some yak-rancher comrades. One of them is Brook LeVan, an outspoken advocate of local food security, whom I long ago dubbed the “Messiah of the Roaring Fork Valley Foodshed.”

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The World of Competitive Shucking

Taylor Shellfish Farms’ retail store on Seattle’s lower Capitol Hill not only boasts the largest production of farmed bivalves in the country, but also an international oyster-shucking champion among its ranks. A mere three seconds is enough for Taylor’s head shucker, David Leck, to serve up a perfectly clean Kumamoto, and he has the first and second place international titles to prove it.

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5 Unusual Food Stops for a Road Trip in Oregon

Serious Eats’ Erin Zimmer has roots in the West (though she lives in Brooklyn now, aka Berkeley East). When she’s not running the website, she’s probably trying to find a ripe avocado. Originally from a beach town in Orange County, she likes to see the Pacific waves as much as possible. Recently it was from the Oregon coast where she was road-tripping, hunting for tasty local treasures.

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