So, so many drink books are coming out this fall. Here are the latest covering everything from Hollywood to Cuba to Manhattan to Paris; a photo book on bourbon and a scratch and sniff guide to the same; Prohibition liquor and two books on cocktails of the silver screen. Read more →
history
A post-WWII quote reminds me of drinking in 2005. Read more →
Twelve new books out on beer, vermouth, bourbon, modern and mob-related history, gin, and jars. Read more →
I'll be a panelist at an event at the National Archives in Washington, DC. You know, the place where they keep the Declaration of Independence? That place. No big deal. Read more →
A ton of information about the history of vermouth (both sweet and dry kind of come from the same place) and its legal definitions in the European Union. Read more →
Notes from a talk about the History of Australian Bartending. Read more →
Here are a whole bunch of new drinking books already on shelves or available for pre-order online. Read more →
Peru is an exciting country for drink nerds like me, as it is the birthplace of the potato, pisco, and the cinchona tree that produces quinine for tonic water. I didn't realize until recently that it was also the birthplace of the international guano industry, perhaps the world's first exported industrial fertilizer. Read more →
