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Liza Weisstuch

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Covers:  Travel, criminal justice, drinks/distilleries, food, culture, architecture and design
Doesn't Cover: Wine, family travel, luxury travel, cruises
Just a narrative girl in a soundbite world. Journalist in pursuit of logic, design that thrills, sensational whisky. Covering travel, drinks, criminal justice.

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The unsung treasures of Staten Island

The unsung treasures of Staten Island

In 1916, a young woman with dreams of making it big on Broadway lit off from her home in Cincinnati, leaving …

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To Toast America's Birthday, They Blended Bourbon From Every State

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By Liza Weisstuch Verified
| Breaking One
VERGENNES, Vt. -- Outside the building in rural Vermont where a company called Lost Lantern blends whiskey sits a Prius V with more than 120,000 miles on the odometer. It was brand-new when Lost Lantern's owners, Nora Ganley-Roper and Adam Polonski, bought it in 2018. They had just quit their jobs in New York City (he was a drinks writer and editor, she was a sales manager for Astor Wines & Spirits), put their belongings in storage, founded a whiskey company and hit the road for eight months.
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Drink like a founder: Bars that are as old as America

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By Liza Weisstuch Verified
| The Minnesota Star Tribune Verified
Drink like a founder: Bars that are as old as America In the colonial times, patriots gathered at taverns to gossip, talk politics and plot ways to mobilize. The New York Times The Griswold Inn in Essex, Conn., opened the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed. The building was originally a schoolhouse.
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To Toast America’s Birthday, They Blended Bourbon From Every State

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By Liza Weisstuch Verified
| The New York Times Verified
Outside the building in rural Vermont where a company called Lost Lantern blends whiskey sits a gray Prius V with more than 120,000 miles on the odometer. It was brand-new when Lost Lantern’s owners, Nora Ganley-Roper and Adam Polonski, bought it in 2018. They had just quit their jobs in Manhattan (he was a drinks writer and editor, she was a sales manager for Astor Wines & Spirits), put their belongings in storage, founded a whiskey company and taken off for eight months.
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