Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
It drives me crazy to throw something out. I find planned obsolescence revolting. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Aside from the martini, the mint julep may be the most iconic cocktail in America. — Jonathan Miles America Copy Share Image
I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life. — Jonathan Miles Embarrassed Copy Share Image
Paddleboarding is what happens when you want to kayak on a surfboard or surf a kayak: You stand atop a board paddling… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Anyone with a fondness for intricately flavored, carefully measured cocktails and entertaining at home knows how poorly the two mix. — Jonathan Miles Cocktails Copy Share Image
More often than not, punches underwhelm - too fizzy, too fruity, too sherbet-y, and/or too baroque, the flavors all muddled into the… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Havana is one of the great cities of the world, sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome - a city, as… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed… — Jonathan Miles Adaptation Copy Share Image
The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it. — Jonathan Miles College Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a good bar fight, properly executed and healthily ended, is not merely annoying boorishness. The best of them -… — Jonathan Miles Art Copy Share Image
Young men feel they have much to prove; older men, as a very general rule, tend to feel more comfortable in their… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the… — Jonathan Miles Absence Copy Share Image
You pray for days when the crappie fishing is so relentlessly good that you're giggling like a kid and the only things… — Jonathan Miles Fish Copy Share Image
Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors;… — Jonathan Miles Africa Copy Share Image
Bermuda's beaches are justly famed for their pink sands, colored by the pulverized shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera. When occupied by… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something… — Jonathan Miles Books Copy Share Image
An early remedy for malaria called for tossing the sufferer, Br'er Rabbit-style, into a prickly bush; in his hasty retreat, went the… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
A Negroni demands your full, upright attention. It will not tolerate mindless swigging the way all those sweet summertime drinks do, which… — Jonathan Miles Attention Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
“Had Stella been named anything else, and/or had we lived in any other city besides New Orleans, my desperate call would have… — Jonathan Miles Better man Copy Share Image
Most of us seem to be buried under our own possessions, and it seems to be getting worse. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
If everything is disposable or recyclable, how does that make us feel about ourselves and each other? — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
The rich flavors of duck meat have always attracted sweet, fruit-based sauces. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked. — Jonathan Miles Bird Copy Share Image
“This is our condition . We do not solve problems. We replace them with other problems.” — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
For me, alcohol has this endless fascination that there's this substance that can enhance life so beautifully and destroy it so completely. — Jonathan Miles Alcohol Copy Share Image
For me, there's something likable but not quite lovable about poached fish: the ultraclean flavor, the melt-away texture, the no-fat virtuousness. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
The best largemouth bass fishing I've ever encountered was at Lake Huites, a vast impoundment on the outskirts of the Sierra Madre… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
There is a mammalian side to all of us; on occasion, it rears its head, snarls, makes a mess, acts the fool,… — Jonathan Miles Animal Copy Share Image
Loading a hollowed-out loaf of bread with steak, mushrooms, shallots, and a fat dose of horseradish yields a kind of portable beef… — Jonathan Miles Bread Copy Share Image
The perfect way for an angler who loves to cook to show off his fish is serving it whole, fresh off the… — Jonathan Miles Fish Copy Share Image
Roasting fish that's encased inside a salt crust is a centuries-old method of ensuring moist, ultra-flavorful flesh. — Jonathan Miles Fish Copy Share Image
