Those under the stress of arranging holiday parties in the coming months can be forgiven for agonizing over what drinks to serve. Bookstores carry an abundance of bloated and bloviating drinks manuals ...

The longer that bars remain partially (or completely) closed, the longer you may feel like exchanging your quarantine bread-making hobby for a decidedly boozier option. You don’t have to throw away ...

A new slew of mixologically-minded books is headed our way, offering everything from martinis to twists on palomas and pina coladas. There’s even a volume on “dusty collecting” — turns out that’s a ...

If you have watched FX’s “The Bear,” you might have noticed that the character Carmy (played by Jeremy Allen White) has a cookbook collection that eventually goes from a haphazard pile on his ...

For Sammi Katz and Olivia McGiff, bringing “Spirited Women” to life was a true labor of love. Building on the success of their 2023 book, “Cocktails in Color: A Spirited Guide to the Art and Joy of ...

It should come as a surprise to no one that the last few years have borne witness to the glory days of the modern cocktail. A less publicized, but equally valid, trend is that those same years have ...

At 83 years of age, John Shelton Reed has authored or edited a whopping two dozen books. His most recent work, “The Ramos Gin Fizz,” was published this summer by LSU Press as part of their popular ...

In his career as a journalist and founding dean of LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication, John Maxwell Hamilton has covered many subjects and authored books on topics from Woodrow Wilson and the ...

In the Gillman household, July 4 isn’t just Independence Day. It’s Black Raspberry Day. That’s the day Bentley Gillman, distillery manager at Tattersall, goes out foraging with his family for ripe ...