This Sommelier’s Shift Drink Might Surprise You
How did Miller High Life become a bit of a “bartender’s handshake?”
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Magazine
My Father Puts His Book Down
When my father puts his book down at the kitchen table, I feel slightly nauseated. “You don’t need to put so much sugar in your coffee."
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The Story of Amabile di Rosa
Never wear new shoes to a wine fair. Thank goodness it was Kachi Izukanne’s first Vinitaly. If the pinch of his new white sneakers hadn’t driven him to find a chair...
Under Construction
Gingerbread," and that's how I say it with a capital G...at its simplest and purest, a housing project, an inversion of the one in which I grew up in East New York.
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The People of the Dark Water
Going “down home” has been a tradition since childhood. As a little girl, I’d ride with my grandma on Sunday afternoons, making the 45-minute drive to where our roots lay.
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Bagpipes Are My Homeland
I’d been told my grandfather’s ashes were interred within the walls of Deacon Brodie’s pub in Edinburgh.