Keep a cauldron of this bubbling and you’ll have to beat your neighbors away with a broom!

I’m very excited to be the host of this month’s Mixology Monday, which spotlights one of my favorite wintertime spirits: brandy.

There are, conservatively, about eighteen thousand available variations on the cocktail known as the Golden Dawn. With bitters, without bitters. With Cointreau, without Cointreau. With calvados, without calvados. You get the idea. From what I have gathered, it originated sometime during the 1920s, though Chuck Taggart traces its creation to London in the 1930s. I, [...]

A penalty shoot-out is the worst way to loose a soccer game. Mano-a-mano with the goalie sounds like a great idea, but PKs are a stressful, unfair way to end two hours of evenly matched football. Especially when your team’s captain, widely regarded as the finest footballer of his generation, does something idiotic in the [...]

[Ed. note: A revised, updated version of this post circa 2009 can be found here.] A few weeks ago, I received a request from an interested reader, asking for my thoughts on liquor in the home bar. Specifically, what and how should one choose what to buy? And, equally important, how do you keep the [...]