Complex, seductive and (if well made) smooth, the sazerac is the cocktail that started it all (some claim it’s the first cocktail ever made).
Hailing from New Orleans, the sazerac was originally made from absinthe (New …

I was young and alone in Paris on my birthday when I fell in love with whiskey sours.
This was longer ago than I care to recall but I do remember wandering down some small street …

I fell in love with mojitos in the back streets of Barcelona’s Gothic quarter. There, in a dark tiny bar barely larger than a closet, a man stood behind a counter with bags of ice, …

The first time I had a martini I was 21, on my first business-class flight (I wasn’t paying), and I ordered one from the hostess because I thought it was the sophisticated thing to do. …