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Craig Stoltz

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Shenandoah Valley
As seen in: The Startup, Business Insider, MSN Deutschland, The Washington Post, Flipboard, Business Insider Deutschland, Yahoo, Fodor's Travel, Tasting Table, Verywell Health and
Covers:  Destinations (culinary, luxury, history, and culture); restaurants, food, wine, spirits, and cocktails; use of AI in travel; e-bike travel; Virginia, Mid-Atlantic, DC area; Caribbean.
Doesn't Cover: Politics, government, health, medicine

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Craig Stoltz’s Biography

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Freelance journalist specializing in food, drinks, and travel. Former editor of the Washington Post travel section. Recent clips: Garden & Gun, AFAR, Fodor's, Frommer's, Virginia Living, GoWorld Travel, Wine Traveler, Business Insider. Senior editor, Food, Wine & Travel magazine. Focus: Culinary travel; destinations; AI and travel (speaking and writing); Mid-Atlantic, Virginia; luxury; history and culture; e-bike travel; Caribbean.

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20 Years After the Oscar-Winning Film, Hitting the 'Sideways' Wine Trail

20 Years After the Oscar-Winning Film, Hitting the 'Sideways' Wine Trail

Following the sodden footsteps of Miles and Jack along the Santa Ynez Valley wine trail in Santa Barbara Coun…

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If You're Using AI to Plan Your Travel, Beware These 4 Common Mistakes the Bots Keep Making

If You're Using AI to Plan Your Travel, Beware These 4 Common Mistakes the Bots Keep Making

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be a helpful travel planning tool, but it can also make mistakes.…

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President Lincoln's Cottage: The Quietly Powerful D.C. Museum You've Never Heard Of

President Lincoln's Cottage: The Quietly Powerful D.C. Museum You've Never Heard Of

With a simple walnut desk and stories to fill volumes, President Lincoln's retreat is a heartbreaking time ca…

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How Phil Collins Remembers the Alamo

How Phil Collins Remembers the Alamo

The story of singer Phil Collins's obsession with the Alamo, and his $41 million collection on view.

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Inside Joon, Northern Virginia's Award-Winning Iranian Restaurant

Inside Joon, Northern Virginia's Award-Winning Iranian Restaurant

Discover how Joon, with its origins in northern Iran, showcases a timeless blend of flavors that have captiva…

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It's Time to Eat Houston

It's Time to Eat Houston

Houston, said to be the most diverse city in the U.S., offers over 10,000 restaurants serving over 70 differe…

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Articles

The Judgment of the Shenandoah Valley

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By Craig Stoltz 
| FWT Magazine
Fifty years ago, the United States stunned the wine world by winning what became known as the Judgment of Paris. It’s an improbable story, one that nearly didn’t come about. British wine merchant Steven Spurrier, who had a wine shop in Paris, had an American colleague, Patricia Gallagher, who’d visited Napa and returned to France impressed with the wines’ quality. The two cooked up the idea of an international tasting between American and French wines to mark the U.S. bicentennial.
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Eating Houston: The Most Diverse Food City in America

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By Craig Stoltz 
| Go World Travel Magazine
Colorful mural in Houston. Photo by Andrew Broadfoot My first thought is: I didn’t order an enchilada. I was expecting “Chef’s take on crab cake,” as our server promised. And yet the plate in front of me at Maximo Mexican restaurant in Houston, Texas, holds two neatly folded rolls, draped by a marigold-toned mole. But Adrian Torres has performed a sleight of hand, presenting a dish that borrows the look of a humble enchilada to deliver a luxurious surprise.
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Inside Joon, Northern Virginia's Award-Winning Iranian Restaurant

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By Craig Stoltz 
| Virginia Living
The plate in front of me has followed a path of 6,183 miles and many millennia before it got here. The first versions of the dish-simple roasted eggplant with garlic, turmeric, and poached eggs-were created thousands of years ago near the Caspian Sea, in what's now northern Iran. It became a staple across the Persian empire, with many regional and personalized variations.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I was a cub reporter making $850 a month for a weekly newspaper that served a very wealthy area. This taught me class resentment early.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, and I sucked at it. I'd never had made it as a journalist in the '70s or before. I think I would have been a chef, or a monk.

How is social media changing news?

It's essentially wrecked it, but, unlike global warming, there's no way to fix it now. Funny thing is, back in 2009 I had a blog, Web 2.oh...Really? a very skeptical take on early social media. Time.com named it a Top 25 blog. I was way ahead of my time. Plenty of good it did me.

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