How to Pave Your Way to the Best Cup of Coffee
Every cup of coffee, good or bad, begins with the grinding of the beans. And whether it was done on an industrial machine before packing […]
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Every cup of coffee, good or bad, begins with the grinding of the beans. And whether it was done on an industrial machine before packing […]
Continue reading »Choosing the right bottle of wine for a friend (or even yourself) can seem daunting, even if the choice was limited to reds and whites. […]
Continue reading »Before we were of legal drinking age, my best friend and I used to hang out with her older boyfriend and his older friends, mostly […]
Continue reading »A classic textbook margarita is the perfect summer drink. It’s tart, heady, and sweet enough – a real ride-or-die cocktail , if there ever was […]
Continue reading »An unusual cocktail ingredient is on trend, and it’s not my cherry amarena syrup . (Bye.) It’s cheese. You already love it paired with a […]
Continue reading »You are moving to a new city, to a new country. You’ve found an apartment at the right price, in the right area, and after […]
Continue reading »There is a lot of mythology in the drinking culture. For example, you may think that after peeing at night you are doomed to go […]
Continue reading »My relationship with martinis can be traced back to the bar at Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa, an iconic establishment designed as a French brothel. Desperate […]
Continue reading »Summer days can be tough, especially when you have an afternoon slump – you still have work to do, but your brain is ready for […]
Continue reading »When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, but only the flesh of the fruit. The lemonade does nothing to soften the barrage of lemon […]
Continue reading »One of the side effects of modern capitalism is the relentless pursuit of growth. Every business has to grow every year, otherwise it’s a disaster. […]
Continue reading »A video went viral on TikTok this week in which user MandyVJones explains how you can make a drink that tastes like Coke but is […]
Continue reading »If necessity is the Mother of Invention, then apparently capitalism is the Father of Excess. How many skincare lines, podcasts, or artisanal gins the world […]
Continue reading »I recently had the opportunity to sample Bushmill’s second expression of Rare Caks, a 29-year-old single malt Irish whiskey aged in Pedro Ximénez sherry casks […]
Continue reading »Seltzer, or sparkling water if you like (“spicy water” if you’re my baby), has had a moment since at least 2016 . My Target has […]
Continue reading »When it comes to coffee, there are essentially two types of people: those who will take a cup from any convenient source, and those who […]
Continue reading »Before I got serious about cocktails, I had two main associations if you said the words “strawberry daiquiri” to me. The first thing that would […]
Continue reading »When I was younger and surviving on budget liquor and hot dogs, getting a “good” bottle of liquor was quite a challenge. My natural instinct […]
Continue reading »I wish I knew how to truly enjoy things and prolong the enjoyment, especially when it comes to things that fall under the Food and […]
Continue reading »Drinking wine is fun, stylish fun, and nothing ruins great fun like little smudges and smudges. If I’m serving wine to friends, family, and/or enemies, […]
Continue reading »Recently my stepmother made a pepper jelly that I can only describe as “cruel”. “Yes. I should have warned you,” she wrote when I told […]
Continue reading »Beer is one of the greatest achievements of mankind. We have been brewing it according to different recipes for thousands of years – the ancient […]
Continue reading »Sometimes in the morning I don’t have to look out the window to know it’s going to be a lousy day. Grayness can be felt […]
Continue reading »If I had to choose one bottle of bitter to drink for the rest of my life, it would undoubtedly be Angostura. Omnipresent at the […]
Continue reading »One of the nice things about going to a bar (or bars) is that everything you need is there . Good ice , gourmet cherries, […]
Continue reading »I don’t know if you’re aware, but I recently traveled from Portland to New York to take part in a small collective action . As […]
Continue reading »One thing I’ve noticed during my cocktail training is that a lot of bartenders get very excited about Dark ‘n Stormy. Pre-shift, mid-shift, post-shift, Dark […]
Continue reading »Drinking and dining is a Valentine’s Day tradition, but I prefer appetizers and cocktails. If you want to make a similar pivot, you will need […]
Continue reading »I’m bad on Valentine’s Day. Or maybe I’m very good at it. My boyfriend and I give each other gifts if the right gift comes […]
Continue reading »Any person who looks through the dossier of my life will find that from childhood to this day, in papers such as report cards, teacher […]
Continue reading »In most cases, at least a few of my friends participate in Dry January. The last few years have not been like most years. I […]
Continue reading »I don’t think I really know what the term “Year of Champagne” means. I vaguely remember that someone once told me about it, but the […]
Continue reading »When it comes to hand-brewing coffee, the AeroPress is on the more sophisticated side. It doesn’t have the crafty authority of a pourover, the solidity […]
Continue reading »My idea of wisdom is knowing better than judging how someone orders a martini*. This is a deeply personal thing. Among the most classic shaken […]
Continue reading »I will always love the dirty martini. This was my gateway to the wild and wonderful world of gin, and I love any excuse to […]
Continue reading »I hate to brag, but one of the best things about being estranged from most of my family (aside from self-preservation) is that I don’t […]
Continue reading »A little about myself: I love cocktails. I love making them. I love to drink them. I care a lot about them. I mostly show […]
Continue reading »It is difficult for me to prepare warm cocktails. I have an overactive internal oven and hot ethanol tends to come off aggressively. (I even […]
Continue reading »I’m too dumb to understand “analytics”, but I suspect “what wine goes well with turkey?” this time of year is often searched on Google. Pinot […]
Continue reading »Buying a bottle of liquor for someone when you don’t know much about that particular alcohol ranks just below public speaking on the pressure scale. […]
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