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Recent Examples of ciceroneAs a cicerone and the founder of beer-tour company LA Beer Hop, Mooney’s path overlapped with the pizza community for years.—
Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026 Jen Blair, 45, is one of 28 master cicerones, or beer experts, in the world, only five of whom are women.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025 Here our cicerone stopped and turned back to address us.—Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025 Producing full-bodied, low-carb beers can be difficult, but the challenge has inspired innovation, Katherine Benecke, a cicerone at Treadwell Park in New York City, told Fox News Digital.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
1 Aug. 2025 The advanced cicerone — a cicerone is like a sommelier, but for beer rather than wine — also writes a Substack about drinking and music, Beer & Soul.—
Chloe Veltman,
NPR,
13 June 2025 In both her garden and her paintings, color is the cicerone that guides Lauter’s audience through emotional journeys fraught with personal iconography and symbolic meditations on life and mortality.—
Mayer Rus,
Architectural Digest,
6 Sep. 2024 Founder and brew master David Reese is the only advanced cicerone in the state and one of only 139 in the world, earning this certification for his advanced knowledge of beer and flavors.—
Kelsey Ogletree,
Southern Living,
16 Jan. 2024 Dealing with the passion of the artist through the complexity of the man, Cooper inhabits Bernstein and Maestro’s compositions with Nézet-Séguin as his cicerone.
Like Maestro Cooper, Nézet-Séguin lost himself within the music of the film and the power of the art form while channeling Bernstein.—
A.d. Amorosi,
SPIN,
20 Dec. 2023
Then came the how-to guides, in posts filled with menu combinations and step-by-step explainers on how to navigate Chipotle’s build-your-own ordering system.
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Jenny Lee,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2026
Therefore, one of the UCLA guide's recommendations to judges is not to go it alone.