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10 Cocktails: Maine Coast Edition

Cocktails are better with a view

The Book I Didn’t Write

Sweepings from the cutting room floor, two decades after "And a Bottle of Rum"

You Again! The Return of the Japanese Hard Shake

How one of cocktail culture's past obsessions resurfaced unexpectedly at Tales of the Cocktail

Bourbon St. and How it Got That Way

From Absinthe to the Hand Grenade, a virtual walk down the street that planning forgot

How Many Minutes Does a Martini Take Off Your Life?

I asked science when my drinking will kill me

The Eight-Legged Quality Control Department

The unsung role of spiders in creating and aging spirits — and why every cellar master says the same thing: Don’t touch them.

Could Picon Punch Be the Next Aperol Spritz?

Campari owns Amer Picon. Europe sells it freely. So why can't Americans get the real thing?

Cuba’s Havana Club Finally Won its Battle with Bacardi, Right?

Don’t count on it

Why the Long Face?

Where did the bar joke come from, and will it ever go away?

What I Got Wrong About Corks (And You Probably Did Too)

I spent a few days in Portugal with Big Cork. Here’s what I learned