After a recent party at a friend’s house, our host opened the small Stolichnaya bottle and the smell was overwhelming….

Steven Grasse’s Colonial Spirits (Abrams Image, 2016) is the wackiest drinks book I have ever read. (I state this with admiration, and…

When you think of Texas alcohol, you usually think of good ole Shiner beer. The state is more famous for…

It’s not often one can take several weeks off, pile into a car, and hit the open road without any…

What comes to mind when one reads the word “Sardinia”? Sardines? That island where Napoleon was exiled? (Actually, he cooled…

In his recent book, Biting the Hands That Feed Us (Island Press, 2016), food-policy scholar Baylen Linnekin exposes many of…

The U.S. drinks business is booming, despite the finger-wagging by neo-prohibitionists. Last year’s liquor volume sales climbed 2.4 percent to…

What’s the difference between a beer can and a mayonnaise jar? It sounds like the opening to a bad joke,…

All too many hotel bars are little more than shoddy afterthoughts, soulless spaces where hotel guests, and almost no one…