From the cooling copper cup to the kick of the cocktail, the Moscow Mule mixes history, geography — and ginger
Fresh ginger and limes (plus, of course, the copper cup) help create the perfect Moscow Mule.
Arrack sounds the same no matter how it’s spelled, but this spirit’s ingredients are all over the map
IF YOU GO to a bar (or, better, when you can go back to a bar) and order a glass of arrack, you will have...
Take it from the coffee cherry: Cascara is a fruity tisane revelation
Crisp, refreshing cascara, or coffee cherry tea, is actually a “tisane,” made from the dried fruit and skins of coffee cherry plants.
We’ll always have the French 75: Gin + Champagne is the start of a beautiful friendship
The French 75 cocktail, made with gin and Champagne, was popular during World War I, then through the Roaring '20s, and was featured in the...
Sweet-as-honey mead is the bee’s knees — so why aren’t we drinking more of it?
HELLO, HUMAN. We're glad we have your attention. This is a far better medium for doing so than our usual method, i.e. buzzing around your...
You can pick your flavor, and you can pick your tea — but you should let an expert pick your mushrooms
DO NOT PICK your own mushrooms. Not alone, anyway, and I bother to say this because you probably want to. Tromping through the fecund woods,...
Chunky, curdled possets once were a popular remedy for minor ailments. Nowadays — well … it might be fun to mix up a batch, anyway.
IMAGINE IT'S 1683, and you live in England. You might be in the throes of the Age of Enlightenment, but the state of medicine is still...
Ouzo: a Homeric song of ice and fire
With apologies to Homer Sing, muse, the anger of alcohol purists and those descended from the great philosophers of southern European countries that put white...
Malört is infamously horrible. But lots of people are giving it a shot.
BATTERY ACID. GASOLINE. Floor cleaner. Or, as Brooke Harrison, bartender at the Black Cat bar in downtown Seattle describes it, “an evil rotten grapefruit with...
Loved ‘Parasite’? Stream these Korean films with a similar tone.
For those who liked "Parasite," and who are stuck at home because of another parasite, here are some tonally similar films that you can stream.