alcohol
My wife and I recently joined some friends for a holiday season dinner at a restaurant a few blocks away from us, but it was frigidly cold outside and we sheepishly ended up taking a cab there. It was a nice evening out, but on the way home, it occurred … Read More
Make-your-own-wine stores have always had a dodgy reputation: The strip-mall locations, the invariably cheesy names (D-I-Wine, Wine Not?), the el cheapo ingredients. You’ve probably been at a get-together where the host proudly whips out his crookedly labelled bottle of aftershave-spiked fruit punch. But it doesn’t have to be this way. … Read More
If you really want to impress your poker pals, ditch the Scotch and get acquainted with a real man’s whiskey: bourbon. The sour mash spirit, which usually comprises two-thirds corn, must be made in the U.S. to be called bourbon; about 95 percent of it comes from Kentucky. Too often, … Read More
Humans, it’s safe to say, take comfort in stupid myths. Sure, the mouth of that Great Dane who just slipped you the tongue is cleaner than your own! And yes, you should shave twice a day – it will make your beard as thick and lustrous as God’s. Wine, however, seems … Read More
So, Friday afternoon we have to get her off to the train station in a frenzy of worry and forgetting and major unconsciously-willed disorganization: she has got the time of the train wrong, she has booked too many nights at the hotel and thinks they won’t give her a refund, … Read More
