For all new drink books released in 2025, see this post! June, July, and August New Drink Book Releases 2025 Behind the Home Bar: The Essential Guide to Making Cocktails Amazon Bookshop Spooky Cocktails: 100+ Spirited and Wickedly Delicious Drinks Amazon Bookshop Totally '80s Cocktails Amazon Bookshop The Cocktail Bar:... Read more →
My latest piece for Food & Wine is "How a Bottled Water Goes Social Media Viral and the Real Differences Between Them" Read it here. Read more →
My latest story for Food & Wine is an explainer about “super juice.” Read it here. Read more →
My latest story for Food & Wine is "Why the Shape and Size of Ice in Your Drink Matters." Check it out here. Read more →
My latest story for the San Francisco Chronicle is about all the ways bartenders are liquifying olives in their Martinis - in the vermouth, gin, vodka, brine, leaf tinctures, oil-washing everything, and even an “olive turducken.” Here’s a gift link so you can read it. Read more →
Bartenders joke about male customers who ask for their cocktails to be served in a “man glass” - an Old Fashioned rocks glass rather than in a cocktail glass on a stem, fearful that the Martini glass will make them look gay. I am reading the preview of the forthcoming... Read more →
I did an interview with America’s Test Kitchen a long time ago, and it just went up. The first half of the episode is on the history of ice. I come in at around 27 minutes in. The episode is called Why Are Americans So Obsessed with Ice? Start your... Read more →