Travel & Leisure

Fire Up the Grill: 5 Mouthwatering Recipes for Your Memorial Day Weekend

by Matt Moore

For many of us, Memorial Day weekend kicks off the start of another great summer. Thousands will flock to the beaches, lakes, and mountains of our great country to take in the warm sunshine and beautiful weather. Of course, I’ll be right there with the rest of you. Readied with a cold beer in one [...]

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How to Make Maple Syrup Like a Vermonter

by A Manly Guest Contributor

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from James “Buzz” Surwilo (of The Uncle Buzz Workout and Tree Felling fame). The editors of the Art of Manliness have been requesting a how-to for making maple syrup since, well, they found out that I made a batch last spring. But it’s difficult to write authoritatively on [...]

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How to Bet on the Ponies

by Brett & Kate McKay

Growing up, I never visited a horse track or saw a single horse race. That all changed when I met Kate and married into a horse race-loving family. Rick Surwilo, my father-in-law, had started going to the racetrack as a teenager with his family. This was a time before lotteries and casinos, and horse racing [...]

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How to Pull Off the Perfect Picnic

by Matt Moore

Picnics lead to marriage. Okay gents, now that I’ve got your attention, allow me to explain. Less than two years ago, I met the woman of my dreams. I’ll be the first to admit, I’ve always been a pretty picky guy when it comes to dating. However, within a few hours of meeting my future [...]

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Why Men Should Read More Fiction

by Brett & Kate McKay

At the Art of Manliness, we encourage our readers to read books. It’s through reading that we gain new perspectives and learn more about ourselves and the world around us. I’m a big believer in the saying that “Readers are leaders.” As I’ve studied the lives of great men throughout history, a common thread I’ve [...]

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15 Best Baseball Movies

by Brett

While in recent years football has become the sport of choice among American spectators, we still fondly refer to baseball as “America’s Pastime.” For many men in America, baseball was a boyhood rite of passage and served as the backdrop of some their most cherished memories. Baseball was how many men bonded with their fathers [...]

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Head for the Hills This Weekend: How to Execute an Impulse Road Trip

by A Manly Guest Contributor

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jeff More. Have you ever found yourself on a Wednesday afternoon at work wishing you could be camped out in the mountains this weekend? Stop telling yourself you can’t on such short notice, because you can. In one of AoM’s early articles, How to Streamline Your Next [...]

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A History of the American Bachelor: Part I – Colonial and Revolutionary America

by Brett & Kate McKay

Many of you who read the Art of Manliness are bachelors. And if you’re married, well, you were a bachelor once, too. Bachelorhood has become such an ingrained part of the male experience, that we usually don’t give it too much thought except to make jokes about bachelor pads or married men “batching it” when [...]

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How to Experience Las Vegas Like a Gentleman

by A Manly Guest Contributor

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Joe Weber of Dappered.com. First, a word on the word “gentleman.” To some, it sounds a bit snooty. Like some stuck up Victorian-looking fellow who would never get his hands or clothes dirty. But for the purpose of this article, know that the term is really in [...]

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Cooking With Wild Game

by Matt Moore

It is 5:30 a.m. on a cool fall morning, and my phone is incessantly ringing. In somewhat of a comatose/hung-over state, I rush out of bed to see a picture of my buddy, Miller Gunn, staring back at me on my iPhone. Oftentimes when Miller calls I’m inclined to hit the silent button and go [...]

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Unsung Manly Movie Quotes for Every Occasion

by A Manly Guest Contributor

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jon Finkel. “I’ll be back.” “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” “Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?” These are just a few common manly movie lines that you won’t be seeing [...]

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Let’s Get Cracking: How to Make an Omelet

by Matt Moore

In October, we received an incredible response from our article on “How to Make Better Eggs.” As many of you highlighted in the comments from that article, we left out one important method of preparation: the omelet. Of course, this was done for good reason, as we felt that omelets deserved a post all their [...]

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How to Throw an Awesome Holiday Party–Part III: A Simple and Jolly Dinner Menu

by Matt Moore

This post is brought to you by Heineken. What’s this? The idea of hosting a sit-down dinner can seem intimidating for a lot of men. Beginners wonder if they can pull it off, and those of you who’ve hosted such a bash before know that a good time doesn’t come for free. In fact, quite a bit of hard work, planning, and expense can go into hosting such affairs. Here’s your game plan.

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The Art of Manliness Holiday Gift Guide 2011

by Brett & Kate McKay

The holiday season is officially upon us and that means it’s time for our annual AoM holiday gift guide. When we make our gift guides, we try to hunt down and share the kind of products an Art of Manliness Man would want to find under the Christmas tree: manly, useful, and classic. We also [...]

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5 Ways to Use Your Turkey Leftovers

by Matt Moore

Enough is enough – I’m going on a diet. Those are typically the words that come out of my mouth every Friday morning after the Thanksgiving holiday. Certainly, my actions the day before pretty much always set me up for such a statement. After a day of overeating and watching football, I tend to feel [...]

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How to Roast Chestnuts Over an Open Fire (Plus Chestnut Roaster Giveaway!)

by Brett & Kate McKay

Wait. Before you begin reading this post, click play on the video below. Ah, that’s better. Now we’re ready to proceed. You’ve probably heard the “Christmas Song” hundreds of times in your life, and you’re well familiar with that opening line about “chestnuts roasting on an open fire.” But how many of us have actually [...]

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Man Knowledge: 15 Cool Spy Concealments

by Brett & Kate McKay

In a previous edition of our Man Knowledge series, we discussed the fascinating history of invisible ink. In doing the research for that post, we came across an equally interesting tool in the spy’s bag of tricks: the concealment device. Invisible ink was handy for sending secret messages, but sometimes spies and soldiers needed to [...]

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Venturing Beyond the Playpen: How to Take a Baby Camping

by Darren Bush

The very idea of camping with infants causes the shivers in some parents, mostly those who have been taught that babies are fragile creatures who are not adaptable to any environment except a sterilized one. The truth is that babies are remarkably hardy little souls, and with the proper attention to managing risk, you can [...]

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Breakfast Basics: How to Make Better Eggs

by Matt Moore

In my opinion, eggs are one of your best resources in the morning. Full of quality protein, virtually carb-free, and packed with vitamins and minerals, they make the ultimate breakfast food. Don’t be too swayed by the cholesterol scares of the 1980s; eating the whole egg–not just the whites–has actually been shown to have anti-inflammatory [...]

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