Foreign Affairs, Drinks, & Other Ill-Advised Adventures

Graduation Week at Sewanee is as much fun for parents as students - but beware.

What wine do you drink with ham? The Italians raised the food to an art form, so why not ask them? Orveito? Chenin blanc? Hell, champagne.

Rye whiskey is hot, in cocktails and on the rocks. Enjoy it before the terminally hip make it insufferable.

St. Patrick's Day have never seen such Irish whiskey! Lose the green beer and toast the Emerald Isle with a glass of the good stuff.

It's Mardi Gras the willful Un-American celebration that could only happen in America.

Any activity that, by design, makes you take leave of your senses needs to have some established, external ground rules.

The offal truth about Haggis on Robert Burns night. It's English...

A wine snob, a liquor snob and a beer snob walk into a bar... who sends you screaming to the bathroom?

Hemingway and Fitzgerald celebrated booze in their work. Was it the muse or the demon that cratered their talent?

Beer has evolved for thousands of years. For American beer drinkers, most of it in the last 30 years.

It's like wassail that owns seersucker.

Just how pagan is Christmas - actually not very.

The one Latin phrase I learned at Christian Brothers High School that has stuck with me over the years is "Crapulous Sum": I’m Wasted.

On the podcast we discuss the book, it's evolution, Bob Newhart's eyes, essays that shouldn't get published and how drinking got hardwired i

You’ve had better than ten months to detox from last year's grueling holiday endurance course of parties and good cheer. Here we go again.

Thomas Morton went native. Imagine Heart of Darkness if Joseph Conrad described Kurtz as quick with a drink and good with the ladies.

The holidays are upon us - here's what to drink

On the Podcast we discuss the inspiration for new cocktails along with some bloody failures.

Gin Mania, William and Mary's Famine Relief and that damned pussy...

The grill and beer. The grill without beer...?