writer Shelley Davis that he was suddenly selling 250 pounds of imported Italian dried tomatoes a week at a whopping $18 a pound, when 30 years prior, "Importers couldn't get them beyond being ethnic food.".

I mean, I’ve been to NHL play-off games where the reaction was nothing compared to the cheers that night.It wasn’t that he was a rockstar.

To us, he was our rockstar.. After enough time and grad school and internships and shitty bar jobs, I eventually applied and was offered a chance to work on the website for the popular “Parts Unknown” show.It was with real, honest-to-goodness starstruck wonder that I got to do that.Working from an office in Brooklyn, doing that job, made my world so much bigger, and so much brighter, and I could say a lot of other stuff but it could come out as trite, and I just don’t want to..

I don’t work on that team any more, and I don’t quite know how to put this: I spent some time creating content around a show that is undeniably smart, savvy, and that stretched the boundaries of what many viewers knew or thought they knew about their world.And I appreciate his political leanings and his firm belief that food could be a force for good.

And I believe, even now, that the conversation was so much bigger than just some guy, on the road, eating food.

In fact, I think that some of his stuff amounts to actual public service in its truest sense.On the island, “clear blue skies, the intoxicating scents of Rosa rugosa, honeysuckle, and bayberry” mingle with salty air and fog to create an ideal atmosphere for single malt maturation.

Pundits and retailers have likened the climate to that of some Scottish isles.. Fast Facts: The Notch Nantucket Island 12 Year Old Single Malt Whisky.: The Notch is aged across a variety of casks, including barrels that previously held bourbon, sherry, Cognac, and wine.

Nantucket’s oceanic, windswept climate significantly influences maturation, as the aging whiskey is exposed to salty air and frequent damp fog..: Bottles of The Notch are quite rare, although Nantucket-based Triple Eight Distillery typically doesn’t reveal exact release numbers.