Despite what the Food Network, Williams-Sonoma and your girlfriend have been telling you, the proper utensil for tenderizing a country ham is a baseball bat. That's one of the new techniques we learned attending a hands-on butchering class at The Meat Hook in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, led by co-owner Tom Mylan. One of Mylan's goals is to help students avoid painful rookie mistakes. "I was ...

As an editor at a luxury magazine, my job comes with several perks, such as interviewing famous women who have no interest in dating me, visiting exotic locales I'll never return to and generally impersonating a standard of living I have no hope of ever achieving myself. One of the greatest perks yet was the opportunity to drive a brand new Lamborghini Superleggera, a 530-horsepower, V10 space ...

A recent Denny's television advertisement, offering unlimited pancakes and fries to mark the 150th anniversary of Ireland's potato famine, has provoked the unexpected ire of Irish-Americans across the internet. The ad, which ran in late February and has since disappeared online, touted unlimited starchy treats to customers in celebration of the Great Hunger's end. The potato blight that caused ...

New York–based artist Jeremy Dean has come up with a novel approach to performing some aftermarket modifications on a Hummer H2: he cut it in half. It's all in the name of art with a message, and what better vehicle to choose than the Hummer, a brand that went from Arnold Schwarzenegger's personal chariot to something too toxic even for China. We caught up with Dean for the Hummer Cart ...

Last November, we heard that Adidas would be releasing a Star Wars–themed line of sneakers and clothing, and we were psyched. But when we found out that Darth Vader and a squad of stormtroopers would be unveiling them with Snoop Dogg, our head exploded. So we finished up our Admiral Ackbar cereal and jetted down to the Adidas Originals store in New York's Soho neighborhood, where we ...

Spend five minutes with any men's magazine and you'll quickly realize that the current trend du jour for guys is workwear, that classic American look that says, "I earn my living with my hands." (Even if yours only come out of their cashmere-lined gloves to tweet on your iPhone.) The work boots, denim shirts and buffalo plaid of heritage brands like Red Wing and Woolrich find themselves ...

As Movember draws to a close, hopefully your John Waters is looking more like a Burt Reynolds, which demands an evening out to celebrate. And what are well dressed Mo Bros wearing this year? Why, Arbitrage's mustache cuff links, of course. "I came up with the idea with Adam Garone, one of the founders of Movember," says Arbitrage co-founder Alan Chan. "I wanted to get more involved with the ...

Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink spent over five years and traveled to three continents, chronicling the bizarre world of car show girls. The resulting book, "Car Girls," depicts the the auto industry's human window dressing presenting, posing and, more often than not, staring vacantly into the crowds. Hassink and author Tim Dant deal with obvious issues of gender and objectification, but ...

Beer cocktails. At face value the concept seems nauseating, not to mention a gross perversion of the age-old "beer before liquor ... " admonishment. You're drinking a beer precisely because you don't want a cocktail, right? But the British have been drinking Shandy's since there were foreign nations to invade, and south of the border it's the Michelada that's the official drink of summer, not some ...

Candy seems to be the final frontier in man's inexorable effort to mix everything with booze. Whether it's because single-malt Bubble Tape doesn't seem like a good idea to anyone, or because of that whole don't-market-alcohol-to-children nonsense, the marriage of candy and liquor remains a partnership fraught with unrealized potential. Thankfully, several creative souls around the world have ...