Cuisine Stupide

The trendiest spirit of the past decade is mezcal. And like Instant Pots and puppies, the liquor became even more popular during the pandemic. Once a hard-to-find niche item often… [Continue Reading]

I was, for far too many years, an insufferable beer snob. I know: Beer is not typically associated with elitist tastes and nose-wrinkling attitudes. At least, it wasn’t until the… [Continue Reading]

Over the course of more than two decades as a writer, editor, and columnist for local newspapers, I came to conclude that our readers mostly fell into two broad camps:… [Continue Reading]

With little argument, New York can probably lay claim to inventing more popular modern cocktails than any other city in the Western Hemisphere, with Paris and London perhaps not far… [Continue Reading]

The oldest item in our liquor cabinet isn’t a vintage cognac or an antique whiskey. It’s a bottle of blueberry schnapps, about to enter its fourth decade of gathering dust…. [Continue Reading]

Of all the negative consequences of the misguided exercise called Prohibition—organized crime, government corruption, economic decline, and an actual increase in deaths due to alcoholism and tainted moonshine—one downside is still… [Continue Reading]

The worst thing that ever happened to mint was toothpaste. It’s just sad. This superb herb, one equally serviceable in culinary applications both sweet and savory, is instead most closely… [Continue Reading]

These are the glory days for cranberries. The weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas and on into the New Year are the moments when the ruby fruit seizes the spotlight, not… [Continue Reading]