Tiny Bubbles

For a smaller carbon footprint, carbonate at home

It started, appropriately enough, at sustainability's ground zero: San Francisco. Nearly a decade ago, the nose-to-tail restaurant Incanto made a bold move by eradicating bottled...

A More Spiritual Spirit

The world's first kosher-for-Passover gin

The drinking options at the seder table keep getting better and better. In the dark ages, the only option was sticky-sweet Manischewitz. Then a quality revolution gripped the wine...

Higher Learning

Enhance your home bar with these advanced tools

Congratulations: You've stocked your home bar with all the right staples--from premium vermouth to handmade bitters--and you've collected the basic gear needed to master the...

Salt Shakers

Sodium chloride hits the cocktail glass

Salt in restaurant food is receiving a drubbing these days. In the cocktail world, though, salt is not exiting the bar or restaurant--it's leaping into the drinks...

Not Potato

Vodka grows some local roots

Vodka has been working on an image change. For years, cocktail snobs and mixologists have been bemoaning vodka's increasingly bland and ubiquitous flavor. However, thanks to a few...