Saturday Morning BYCU: White Coffee
Susan C. Olmstead at Epoch Times
Food and Drink
On Yuengling
When I was a college student in Texas, I told someone at a bar that I was from Pennsylvania. The guy’s eyes lit up. “Pennsylvania?!” the man exclaimed. “That means you get to drink Yuengling whenever you want!”
Yes, I mused, with a shrug and a swig of my
The Gin and Tonic is Coming Back in its Birthplace: India
Jaya Saxena at Punch
Wine Collecting: Billionaire Frenzy
Kathleen Willcox at The Spectator
The World of Wine Collecting
It's a combination of pretension, mystery, investment, viticulture, vinification, historical appreciation, and fraud.
The world of wine collecting. The world of the 1%. Scratch that. The 1/10th of one percent.
It sounds like oenophiles work with vintners to create a buzz about a new wine, one that
When Virtue Becomes Vice
We can't pursue virtue without vice.
Every pursuit of virtue, after all, requires us to strive to advance our happiness. Every such pursuit, in other words, is selfish, which is the root of all vice.
It's a paradox.
Paradox, The Hemispheres, and the TaoA basic tension
No More Boozy Bachelorette Parties?
By Ivy Manners at the New York Times
California Wine Struggles
Louis Sahagún at Los Angeles Times
Mint Julep: The Percy Battle?
Poet Will Percy provided this recipe for the Mint Julep in his autobiography, Lanterns on the Levee:
First you needed excellent bourbon whisky; rye or Scotch would not do at all. Then you put half an inch of sugar in the bottom of the glass and merely dampened it with
A Tip to the Right Hemisphere
I agree with Modern Drunkard Magazine's observation that, if you can't afford to tip the bartender, you can't afford to drink in a bar. Just buy a six-pack and stay home.
Me? I prefer to stay home with the six-pack, but I love bars.