Being a double-amputee doesn’t mean you can’t find your place in the agricultural world — and for Alex Jauregui, that place is as a beekeeper. Jauregui served for 11 years in the U.S. Army and deployed four times — twice to Iraq and twice to ...
In the eyes of this butcher, the craft of cutting and selling meat is making a comeback, and he couldn’t be happier that its role in human history is being celebrated.“Butchering is the second oldest profession known to mankind,” said Paul ...
On top of being a physically demanding job, carpentry is more of a visual process than most people realize. When you throw in the extreme weather often found in the northeast United States, it takes a special kind of person to excel in this line of ...
His service in the U.S. Marine Corps was key to this industrial inspector and entrepreneur’s career.Jay Locatelli was in a Marine Recon unit from 1998 to 2000, stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego. He started his own industrial inspection ...
Dilan Call has been an electrician for 11 years, and currently works out of the Local 490 union in Concord, New Hampshire. While being an electrician isn’t always an easy job, Call sees it as a key component to the American economy, and he’s ...
Even after a residential blaze gave him third-degree burns, firefighting was a lifestyle Arron Williams couldn't leave behind. He got hooked after going on a ride-along in high school, and now going into his seventh year with his local Fire ...
More than anything, metal fabrication is a profession that requires precision and care. Those who perform the job start with large pieces of metal, and then cut, weld, burn, machine, and form them into a final product. That product could be anything ...
Welding is strenuous work, but creating something with your own hands is inherently satisfying.There are many different types of products that welders have a hand in creating. For welder Travis Kasperson, who creates agricultural implements such ...
The mix of art and craft keeps this blacksmith of 20 years going.Jonathan Rummel, owner/operator of Hand Forged Works in North Andover, Massachusetts, sees himself as both an artisan and a craftsman. “I think there’s a fine line between the ...
These days, being a mechanic means changing with the times.No one knows that better than Ernie Alix, who owns and operates Ernie’s Garage in Windham, New Hampshire. Because his father was also a mechanic, he’s spent his whole life in garages, but ...
It’s that time of year again: copious amounts of eggnog, fourth cousins rooting through your fridge, and last-minute shopping. Regardless of which holiday you celebrate, December seems to bring out the best and the worst, whether it’s people, food, ...
Approximately six months into my relationship with my college boyfriend, we were sitting at a Pizza Hut when he nervously told me, “When I have kids, I want to raise them Jewish.”I shrugged. “That’s fine with me.”And that’s how a lapsed ...
It’s been a big year for Coffee or Die Magazine! In our freshman effort as a new online publication, we’ve released six issues with great stories that range from insane to fascinating, hilarious to dead serious. With a team of talented writers ...
If you’ve been following Coffee or Die Magazine, you may have been wondering where we’ve been lately and why there weren’t any stories published in October. I apologize for the absence, but we’ve been hard at work preparing for the launch of our new ...
For decades, if someone drove north into Buffalo, New York, they would encounter an aerosolized wall of lingering pollution from the long-defunct Bethlehem Steel plant in the suburb of Lackawanna. The plant shuttered almost entirely in 1983, leaving ...
Hailing from just outside Ishpeming, Michigan, a small town in the Upper Peninsula, Alyssa Maybe grew up with the odds stacked against her. Both Child Protective Services and the local circuit court removed her from her family multiple times; first ...
Fuck Off Google." The sign hangs from an apartment balcony on the Landwehr Canal, a waterway that runs through the unkempt, bohemian district of Kreuzberg and later connects with the Spree. If you walk a little farther, you’ll see another sign, this ...
There are few things that I enjoy in life more than a good story over a good cup of coffee, and I’m sure I’m not the only one — and that’s the hunch I was betting on when I met with the Black Rifle Coffee Company's leadership about two months ago in ...
TJ O’Shea attracts the occasional odd look as she steps down from the cab of her big rig in a skirt, combat boots, Waxtrax hoodie, and fedora. She could be anywhere from Florida to Idaho, spending 14-hour days listening to audiobooks while flying ...
