By Richard Thomas Although I do make cocktails at home, I am not endowed with a well-equipped bar cart of all the odds and ends to truly call one’s self a home mixologist. However, what I am is a fan of the eternal queen of the whodunnit, Agatha Christie. I am such a sucker for her work that even though ...

By Richard Thomas I’m often surprised when trends and fads don’t carry more people down what should be obvious path. For example, many say that the TV show Madmen helped drive the modern cocktail renaissance. Keeping that in mind, one wonders why this pairing didn’t spark more interest in film noir. True, the TV show and film noir don’t quite ...

By Richard Thomas The 2020 Holiday Season has a quite different vibe to it that years past, due in large part to the covid-19 pandemic. With infection numbers spiking around the world, but nowhere worse than in (what is still Donald Trump’s) America, people are looking at the coming of winter and the end of patio and sidewalk drinking and ...

By Richard Thomas Japanese Whisky is a hot ticket item nowadays, enjoying a massive international interest while remaining firmly ensconced in the larger world whisky boom. Although the Japanese Whisky industry is first and foremost about its own home market, a major part of its success has been establishing itself as a peer (in quality, not quantity) with Scottish and ...

By Kurt Maitland Amanda Schuster is the Senior Editor in Chief of The Alcohol Professor, author of the book New York Cocktails, a freelance writer and booze-industry social media manager, and has a wealth of knowledge in the spirits field. She is a certified sommelier and former retail spirits and wine buyer for Astor Wine & Spirits, all of which makes ...