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What’s In My Home Bar: Christopher Kimball, Founder of Milk Street

What’s In My Home Bar: Christopher Kimball, Founder of Milk Street

13/09/2022

Tucked away in a modest corner off of his kitchen, just next to the staircase leading down to his basement, Christopher Kimball’s home bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts, packs few frills....

Behind the Drink: The Parasol

Behind the Drink: The Parasol

08/09/2022

Some of the best drinks in the world—the iconic classics that are firmly established in the cocktail canon—are the result of what those of us engaged in creative pursuits refer...

Why Can’t Hollywood Movies Get Bartending Right? - Fix Me a Drink

Why Can’t Hollywood Movies Get Bartending Right? - Fix Me a Drink

07/09/2022

There is seemingly no detail too small for big-budget movies to get right—except bartending, that is. While lots of films depict bartenders at work, few of them get the details...

Whiskey Secrets: You Should Be Drinking Younger (and Cheaper) Scotch

Whiskey Secrets: You Should Be Drinking Younger (and Cheaper) Scotch

06/09/2022

I have two bottles of blended Scotch whisky on my tasting table right now. Both are small sample bottles. Both have an “8” on the label to tell you how...

Flaviar is Launching a New Podcast: Fix Me a Drink

Flaviar is Launching a New Podcast: Fix Me a Drink

01/09/2022

Two of the world’s foremost liquor experts, Dave Wondrich and Noah Rothbaum, are launching a new podcast called Fix Me a Drink.

Manhattan cocktail

For the Love of Drinking: A Reverse Manhattan

01/09/2022

The sensible option would undoubtedly have been to politely turn down any offer of alcohol in preference for something soft, even abstention, but we were in too deep by then....