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Welcome to PG RATED,
your consumer guide to wine, spirits, brews, cocktails, and assorted temptations.
The focus: finding drinks that offer quality, value, and sometimes both.
This independent and ad-free site also will report on bar and kitchen equipment, taste test foods, suggest useful books, periodically make restaurant recommendations nationwide and abroad, put forward practical gift guides, discuss trends, stir and shake debates, and generally try to keep you from hangovers.
The ratings system uses stars:
★★★★★ five mean extraordinary;
★★★★ four, mean exceptional;
★★★, excellent;
★★, very good;
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#21 THANKSGIVING
The reasons to be grateful vary by year. Everyone will give thanks when this one ends. But there is possibility. After all, a 75-foot tall, 45-foot wide, 11-ton Norway spruce from Oneonta, N.Y. is slated to illuminate Rockefeller Center on Dec. 2. And while Thanksgiving 2020 will be as different from those remembered as roast… Read more
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#20 HALLOWEEN SPIRITS, ELECTION DAY POURS, ASSORTED TERRORS … AND PLAYING PRESIDENT
Scared yet? How’s that anxiety going? Thought so. Halloween feels like it’s leading too fast into Election Day. 2020 vision: COVID-19 unchecked, apocalyptic wildfires, 27 hurricanes, and, of course, the arrival of murder hornets. And the only analysis you want to hear is from a distinguished panel of Lewis Black, Dennis Miller, John Cleese, and… Read more
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